The bright red berries are edible and young leaves are often used as tea.
Bearberry, or kinnickinnick, trailing, evergreen shrub of heather family. Flexible, rooting branches grow up to 2 m long, are covered with reddish, shreddy bark and bear alternate, dark green, oval leaves. Small, waxy, urn-shaped flowers are white or pink, tipped with red.
The fruit are edible and are sometimes gathered as food for humans. The leaves of the plant are used in herbal medicine.
The leaves are evergreen, remaining green for 1-3 years before falling. The fruit is a red berry. The leaves are shiny, small, and feel thick and stiff. In spring, kinnikinnick produces white or pink flowers. . . . .364011234465!]0000000000000009783314144767!]
