Botanical name: Gaultheria procumbens

Other names: Checkerberry, Youngsters, Teaberry, Tea leaves, Wintergreen oil plant, Squawberry, Squaw plum, Squaw vine, Spiceberry, Spicy wintergreen, Spicy wintergreen checkerberry, Partridge berry, Procalm, Red pollom, Ground tea, Grouseberry, One berry, Drunkards, Gingerberry, Groundberry, Creeping checkerberry, Creeping wintergreen, Creeping wintergreen checkerberry, Checkerberry, Chickenberry, Chinks, Boxberry, Canada tea, Canterberry, Wintergreen, American mountain tea, Aromatic wintergreen

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Genus: Gaultheria

Species: G. procumbens - G. procumbens is a dwarf, spreading shrub with rounded, evergreen foliage that takes on red tinges in winter. Pale pink or white flowers appear in summer and are followed by bright red berries.

Gaultheria procumbens is: Evergreen

Flower: Insignificant or absent, White, Pale-pink in Summer

Foliage: Green in Spring; Green in Summer; Green in Autumn; Flushed red, Green in Winter

Fruit: Red in Summer; Red in Autumn

Fragrance: The leaves have an aroma resembling antisceptic cream when crushed.

Habit: Spreading

Toxicity: Any part of the plant may cause severe discomfort if ingested.

Awards: RHS AGM (Award of Garden Merit)

Plant with: Erica carnea 'Adrienne Duncan' (Heather 'Adrienne Duncan'), Desfontainia spinosa (Spiny desfontainia), Camellia 'Cornish Spring' (Camellia 'Cornish Spring')