This low-growing evergreen blueberry of the Coastal Plain forms mats on the forest floor. It is ornamental and useful as a native groundcover. Pinkish-white flowers appear in mid-late April.

Holly Shelter Game Land, Pender Co., NC 4/19/09.

Native to just four states, Creeping Blueberry is common only in southern 2/3 of North Carolina and the eastern 1/3 of South Carolina. It also occurs in a few counties of the lower Piedmont. In Georgia and Virginia it is rare and local.

Pender Co., NC 4/19/09.