Cranberry
- berry has improved flavour when cooked.
- varieties in the Pacific Northwest are Bog cranberry (Vaccinium oxycoccus), Mountain cranberry/Lingonberry (Vaccinum vitis-idaea), and Grouseberry/Whortleberry (Vaccinum scoparium)
- Mountain cranberry is a mat-forming shrub, resembling bearberry, but having dark spots on the lower surface of its oval leaves and juicy, thin-skinned berries. It grows in foothill, montane, alpine and subalpine regions.
- Bog cranberry is a slender trailing plant that grows in bogs and has small shiny dark green alternate leaves that are silver-grey beneath..
- Grouseberry is a low shrub with small, single bright red berries that grows on foothill, montane, and subalpine slopes.
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