American Cranberry
Vaccinium macrocarpon
American cranberry is the trailing evergreen vine of acid bogs that yields the familiar tart red fruit. A creeping groundcover for permanently wet, sandy, acidic ground and rain-garden margins.
- Family
- Ericaceae
- Type
- shrub
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 0–1 ft
- Spacing
- 2–6 ft apart
- Light
- sun
- Soil moisture
- wet, moist
- Soil pH
- acidic
- Bloom
- June, July
- Bloom colors
- pink, white
- Wildlife value
- pollinators, songbirds, butterflies, larval host, mammals
- Caterpillar hosts
- ~294 butterfly & moth species
- Landscape uses
- foundation, groundcover, container, rain garden, erosion control
- Native states
- CT, DE, IN, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, NC, NH, NJ, NY, OH, OR, PA, RI, TN, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV