Vaccinium vitis-idaea ssp. minus

General:
Low, mat-forming shrub; stems decumbent or ascending, 5-25 cm long, rounded or slightly angled, minutely hairy.

Leaves:
Alternate, evergreen, leathery, narrowly elliptic to egg-shaped, 6-15 mm long, 2-9 mm wide, rounded to shallowly notched at tips, shiny green above, pale with brownish or black stalked glands beneath, margins entire to slightly toothed, somewhat rolled under; nearly unstalked.

Flowers:
One to several in short, terminal clusters; flower stalks with 1-2 bracts below the flower, glandular; corollas pinkish, bell-shaped, 4-6 mm long, 4-lobed to the middle; calyces deeply lobed, the lobes persistent in fruit; filaments hairy; anthers awnless, prolonged into long tubes.

Fruits:
Berries, globe-shaped, 6-10 mm wide, bright red; edible but rather acid.

Source:  The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia

Flower Colour:
White

Blooming Period:
Summer

Fruit/Seed characteristics:
Colour: Red
Present from Summer to Fall

Source:  The USDA