One Plant, So Many Names

20151126DFor such a small plant, Gaultheria procumbens certainly has a lot of common names. Here are a few :

  1. American mountain tea
  2. Aromatic wintergreen
  3. Boxberry
  4. Canada tea
  5. Canterberry
  6. Checkerberry
  7. Checkerberry
  8. Chequerberry
  9. Chickenberry
  10. Chinks
  11. Creeping checkerberry
  12. Creeping wintergreen
  13. Drunkards
  14. Gingerberry
  15. Ground tea
  16. Groundberry
  17. Grouseberry
  18. Hillberry
  19. Ivoryberry
  20. Johnny jump up
  21. Mountainberry
  22. Mountain tea
  23. One-berry
  24. Partridge berry
  25. Redberry tea
  26. Red pollom
  27. Spiceberry
  28. Spicy wintergreen
  29. Spring wintergreen
  30. Squaw plum
  31. Squaw vine
  32. Squawberry
  33. Tea leaves
  34. Teaberry
  35. Wax cluster
  36. Wintergreen
  37. Wintergreen oil plant
  38. Youngsters