Cranberry is a low trailing evergreen shrub of bogs, rare in the Mountains and northeastern Coastal Plain of North Carolina. The small glabrous leaves are elliptic and have revolute (turned-under) margins.

The white flowers are unique, with four turned-back petals, looking a bit like hats, and beak-like stamens.

This is the Cranberry of commerce.

Alleghany Co., NC 7/1/06.

Alleghany Co., NC 6/18/06.

Alleghany Co., NC 6/18/06.