Small Cranberry
Vaccinium oxycoccos
Small cranberry is a delicate, thread-stemmed evergreen creeper of cold sphagnum bogs, with nodding pink flowers and tart red berries. A specialist groundcover for saturated, acidic peat.
- Family
- Ericaceae
- Type
- shrub
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 0–1 ft
- Spacing
- 1–3 ft apart
- Light
- sun, part shade, shade
- Soil moisture
- moist, wet
- Soil pH
- acidic
- Bloom
- June, July
- Bloom colors
- pink
- Wildlife value
- butterflies, larval host
- Caterpillar hosts
- ~294 butterfly & moth species
- Landscape uses
- foundation, groundcover, container, rain garden, erosion control
- Native states
- AK, CT, ID, IL, IN, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, NH, NJ, NY, OH, OR, PA, RI, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV
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