Low evergreen shrub of high north temperate regions of Europe and Asia and America bearing red edible berries.

synonyms: cowberry, foxberry, lingberry, lingenberry, lingonberry, Vaccinium vitis-idaea.

Dutch: rode bosbes, vossenbes
Polish: borówka czerwona, brusznica, borówka brusznica

Tart red berries similar to American cranberries but smaller.

synonyms: cowberry, lingonberry, lowbush cranberry.