1. Small prostrate or ascending shrub having scarlet flowers and succulent fruit resembling cranberries; sometimes placed in genus Styphelia
   "The groundberry spread across the sandy soil";
   - native cranberry, ground-berry, cranberry heath, Astroloma humifusum, Styphelia humifusum
    
2. Creeping shrub of eastern North America having white bell-shaped flowers followed by spicy red berrylike fruit and shiny aromatic leaves that yield wintergreen oil
   "Children enjoyed the minty taste of wild groundberries";
   - teaberry, wintergreen, checkerberry, mountain tea, ground-berry, creeping wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens

Derived forms: groundberries, ground-berries

Type of: bush, shrub, shrublet

Part of: Astroloma, Gaultheria, genus Astroloma, genus Gaultheria

Encyclopedia: Groundberry