Vaccinium oxycoccos
Cranberry
Species Details
Cranberry is a locally frequent native plant of the South West and Dark Peak Natural Areas [Goyt Valley SK0076; Alport SK1293; Ramsley Moor SK2976] where it grows as an evergreen, procumbent undershrub on wet heaths and bogs. It is most often seen trailing over lawns of Bog Moss (XXSphagnum spp.). Its edible berries have been eaten locally, particularly by "the Poor" (Farey 1815). It also features in a number of places-names in the uplands, for example Cranberry Ness, Upper Derwent. There appears to have been little change in its local distribution over the last 50 years, whilst nationally it is a plant of the upland north and west, with Derbyshire on its eastern limits.
