HEATH FAMILY 



HEATH FAMILY 



Arctostaphylos Uva-ursi, (L.) Spreng. 



White to deep Mealy-plum Vine. Upland Cranberry, 



pink Mealy-berry, Mountain Cran- 



Red Bearberry, berry, 



May-October Bear's Grape, Mountain Box, 



Bear's Bilberry, Barren Myrtle, 



Bear's Whortle- Universe Vine, 



berry, CreashatS, 



Foxberry, Brawlins, 



Rockberry, Sagachomi, 



Crowberry, Kinnikinnick. 

 Hog Cranberry, 



Arctostaphylos: name composed of Greek words meaning 



bear and bunch of grapes. 

 Uva-ursi: Latin for a bear's grape. 



THE PREFERRED HABITAT: dry, sandy soil of the Commons. 



THE VINE: shrubby, profusely branched; the branches 

 sometimes more than two feet long; the stems woody, 

 reddish-brown. 



THE LEAVES: numerous; alternate; spatulate; leathery; 

 above without hairs; hairless or with very soft hairs below; 

 obtuse at the apex; petioled; entire; finely veined. 



THE FLOWERS: few, in short racemes; corolla ovoid, in- 

 flated at the base, suddenly narrowed at the throat; the 

 stems dark. 



THE FRUIT: a drupe, red, smooth, globose, insipid and 

 rather dry, containing five united nutlets, each one heavily 

 veined on the back. 



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