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Definition of Alpine bearberry
1. Noun. Deciduous creeping shrub bright red in autumn having black or blue-black berries; alpine and circumpolar.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Alpine Bearberry
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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