2020年3月30日 · Kinnikinnick—it's almost a palindrome, and so fun to say. It's a great plant to know and grow. Why Choose It? Glossy leaves that stay green all year, bright red berries that glisten into winter—as C.L. Hitchcock, dean of Northwest botany, wrote: "one of the finest groundcovers known."

Arctostaphylos uva-ursi is a plant species of the genus Arctostaphylos widely distributed across circumboreal regions of the subarctic Northern Hemisphere. [3] Kinnikinnick (from the Unami language for "smoking mixture") is a common name in Canada and the United States.

As a low growing, drought tolerant evergreen groundcover, kinnikinnick or bear-berry as it is commonly referred to, is planted for its crisp foliage, white flowers, and red fall fruit. Evergreen ground cover, 6-12+ inches tall, branches root where they touch the soil, mat-forming.

Bearberry, Common Bearberry, Kinninnick, Kinnikinnick, Pinemat Manzanita, Creeping Manzanita. Extremely winter hardy, Arctostaphylos uva-ursi (Bearberry) is a slow-growing, creeping, evergreen shrub with trailing red stems studded with small, leathery, glossy, obovate, dark green leaves, up to 1 in. long (2.5 cm).

This low-creeping, shrub of northern climes is also called kinnikinnick, an Algonquian word for "smoking mixture." The dry berries are slow to rot and thus provide excellent emergency food for birds and mammals throughout winter.

2024年1月30日 · Kinnikinnick, also called Bearberry, is a wild-growing ground cover found in most of the northwest and western Canada at a variety of elevations and soil types. Its name ( Arctosphylos uva-ursi) is redundant: arctos and staphyle are …

Arctostaphylos uva-ursi, known by a large number of common names including common bearberry and kinninnick, is an extremely winter hardy, creeping, slow-growing, prostrate, woody evergreen shrub that typically grows to 6-12” tall but spreads over time by flexible branching (roots at the nodes) to 3-6’ wide or more.

2023年11月28日 · Arctostaphylos uva-ursi, commonly known as Kinnikinnick, is a testament to the resilience and diversity nature offers in groundcover plants. This plant is favored for its hardiness and aesthetic appeal; this low-growing evergreen …

Very delicate clusters of pinkish-white bell flowers. The common name is a palindrome - spelled the same forward and back. Bearberry makes a lovely groundcover.

Hardy to USDA Zone 2 (varies) Circumboreal covering Europe, Asia, North America, south to Virginia and N. California. Kinnikinnik: is thought to be an Algonquian term meaning, 'smoke mixture'.