Creeping shrub of eastern North America having white bell-shaped flowers followed by spicy red berrylike fruit and shiny aromatic leaves that yield wintergreen oil.

synonyms: checkerberry, creeping wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens, ground-berry, groundberry, mountain tea, wintergreen.

Polish: starzęśla rozesłana, gaulteria rozesłana, golteria rozesłana

Spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil.

synonyms: boxberry, checkerberry, spiceberry, wintergreen.

Dutch: wintergroen