low evergreen shrub of high north temperate regions of Europe and Asia and America bearing red edible berries
A shrub native of the cool temperate areas of northern hemisphere, Vaccinium vitis-idaea
Fruit of a small creeping plant (Vaccinium vitis-idaea) of the heath family, related to the blueberry and cranberry. Also known as cowberry, foxberry, and mountain or rock cranberry, the lingonberry is a wild plant used for jelly and juice by northern Europeans and by Scandinavians in the U.S. The plants grow densely in the forest understory and, like cranberries, can be harvested by raking