General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Shrub
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Water Preferences: Mesic
Soil pH Preferences: Very strongly acid (4.5 – 5.0)
Strongly acid (5.1 – 5.5)
Moderately acid (5.6 – 6.0)
Slightly acid (6.1 – 6.5)
Plant Height: 6 to 12 inches
Leaves: Evergreen
Fruit: Showy
Fruiting Time: Late summer or early fall
Fall
Flowers: Showy
Flower Color: Bi-Color: White and pink
Bloom Size: Under 1"
Flower Time: Spring
Suitable Locations: Beach Front
Uses: Groundcover
Will Naturalize
Resistances: Drought tolerant
Propagation: Seeds: Self fertile
Pollinators: Self
Bees
Containers: Suitable in 3 gallon or larger
Miscellaneous: Tolerates poor soil
Monoecious

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Common names
  • Bearberry
  • Kinnikinnick
  • Common Bearberry
  • Manzanita

Photo Gallery
Location: West Jordan, Utah, United States
Date: 2018-08-24
Location: KALAMA WA
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Location: KALAMA WA
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Location: National Botanical Garden, DC, Virginia :) | May, 2022
Date: 2022-05-28
Location: Downingtown Pennsylvania
Date: 2021-04-15
one plant in a pot in bloom
Location: My garden in N E Pa.
Location: South Jordan, Utah, United States
Date: 2018-04-24

Photo courtesy of Singing Tree Gardens Nursery
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A slow creeper that has bright red stems especially in the spring
Location: Downingtown Pennsylvania
Date: 2021-04-15
one plant in a pot blooming after one winter outside
Location: Kalama, Wa.
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Location: My garden in N E Pa. 
Date: 2015-01-22

Photo courtesy of Singing Tree Gardens Nursery
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Photo courtesy of Singing Tree Gardens Nursery
  • Uploaded by Joy
Location: Downingtown, Pennsylvania
Date: 2011-05-08
white, waxy flowers
Location: Downingtown, Pennsylvania
Date: 2012-04-12
groundcover in spring
Location: Downingtown, Pennsylvania
Date: 2011-10-16
groundcover
Location: Malvern, Pennsylvania
Date: spring 2007
potted plant for sale
Location: Middle TN
Date: May 12, 2018
Comments:
  • Posted by ILPARW (southeast Pennsylvania - Zone 6b) on Dec 20, 2017 4:47 PM concerning plant:
    'Massachusetts' is the most common cultivar of this species planted in the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, or Midwest. It has good resistance to leaf spot and leaf gall. It originated in that state. I put more photos of my 'Massachusetts' Bearberry groundcover patch on the page for the mother species: Arctostaphylos uva-ursi that I planted in Downingtown, PA.

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