Definition of Alpine bearberry

1. Noun. Deciduous creeping shrub bright red in autumn having black or blue-black berries; alpine and circumpolar.

Exact synonyms: Arctostaphylos Alpina, Black Bearberry
Generic synonyms: Bearberry

Lexicographical Neighbors of Alpine Bearberry

alphaviruses
alphitomancy
alphorn
alphorns
alphos
alphosis
alphosises
alphyl
alphyls
alpia
alpidem
alpine
alpine-chough
alpine ash
alpine azalea
alpine bearberry (current term)
alpine bullhead
alpine bullheads
alpine chough
alpine choughs
alpine clover
alpine clubmoss
alpine coltsfoot
alpine gold
alpine goldenrod
alpine hulsea
alpine milk vetch
alpine newt
alpine newts
alpine salamander

Literary usage of Alpine bearberry

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Mountain Wild Flowers of Canada: A Simple and Popular Guide to the Names and by Julia Wilmotte Henshaw (1906)
"alpine bearberry . . Bird's-eye Primrose Shooting Star . . . Red Indian Paint-brush PAGE • 139 • 47 . 148 Erigeron glabellus (Pink to Red Section) 152 ..."

2. Mountain Wild Flowers of America: A Simple and Popular Guide to the Names by Julia W. Henshaw (1906)
"158 alpine bearberry . . . Arctostaphylos alpina (Pink to Red Section) . . . 159 Bird's-eye Primrose . . Primula farinosa (Pink to Red Section) 164 Shooting ..."

3. Arboretum Et Fruticetum Britannicum: Or, The Trees and Shrubs of Britain by John Claudius Loudon (1838)
"... a native of cold and elevated regions, it thrives well in peat, kept moist, in the vicinity of London. л 2. A. ALPI'NA Spreng. The alpine bearberry. ..."

4. Rhodora by New England Botanical Club (1901)
"... and with spreading mats of the alpine bearberry heavily laden with fruit. Comandra livida was not uncommon, but it did not emulate the example of its ..."

5. Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States by Asa Gray (1857)
"(Arbutus Uva-ursi, L.) — Rocks and bare hills ; New Jersey to Wisconsin, and northward. May. (Eu.) 2. A. alpina, Spreng. (alpine bearberry. ..."

6. English Botany, Or, Coloured Figures of British Plants by James Sowerby, John Thomas Boswell, Phebe Lankester, John William Salter (1866)
"Flowers about f inch long, white tinged with green. Anthers chocolate-brown. Berry about the size of a black currant, bluish-black. alpine bearberry. ..."

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