Common name: common bearberry
Family name: Ericaceae
- Latin and Greek in origin
- Arctos means bear
- Staphylos means berry
- close relative of arbutus
- most of them northern
- grown as a ground cover
- doesn’t tolerate compaction
- extremely drought cold tolerant
- sun tolerant
- good for planter on slab, where people can’t walk is ideal
- need to have multiple seedlings to produce fruit
- native to northern North America, Rockies, California to Mexico
- evergreen groundcover
- USDA Hardiness Zone: 2-6
- Vancouver jade is a common cultivar
TIP: red berries, small leaves
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