Small, Cranberry Seed
Small Cranberry Seed
- Tart red berries for homemade sauces, relishes and preserves
- Nodding pink flowers resemble miniature shooting stars in early summer
- Low creeping evergreen mat of tiny glossy leaves for wet soils
- Grow this cold-hardy native from seeds for bog gardens, rain gardens and containers
Key Attributes
About Small, Cranberry Seed
Cool bogs and wet meadows are home to Small Cranberry, a dainty, creeping evergreen native. Vaccinium oxycoccos forms a low mat of tiny, glossy leaves on thread-like stems, with nodding pink flowers in early summer that resemble miniature shooting stars. These are followed by tart red berries that are edible and great for sauces. It is a charming choice for bog gardens, rain gardens and containers of acidic soil.
Growing details
Plant profile
Seed & variety
Before Planting
Planting
Watering
Fertilizer
Harvesting
Tips
Pests & Diseases
Damping off can affect seedlings in warm, stagnant conditions; provide gentle air movement. Fungal fruit rots may occur in humid summers. Clean up fallen fruit.
Few pests bother small home plantings. Cranberry fruitworm and girdlers can occur where commercial cranberries are grown. Birds may take ripe berries.
Native States & Regions
- Alaska
- Connecticut
- Idaho
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Maine
- Maryland
- Massachusetts
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- New Hampshire
- New Jersey
- New York
- Ohio
- Oregon
- Pennsylvania
- Rhode Island
- Vermont
- Washington
- West Virginia
- Wisconsin
Native regions: Pacific Northwest, Midwest, Great Lakes, Northeast, New England
Its Role in the Native Ecosystem
Small Cranberry flowers are pollinated mainly by bumblebees and other native bees in early summer. The berries often persist into winter, feeding grouse, waterfowl, songbirds and small mammals when other food is scarce. Its foliage hosts caterpillars of several bog-specialist butterflies and moths.
Small Cranberry Native Range Map
Native range describes natural occurrence, not the origin of this seed lot or every location where a plant can be grown.
Alaska and Hawaii are shown as insets. State-level range does not mean a plant occurs throughout every part of that state.
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