Gaultheria procumbensL.

Eastern Teaberry

WFO wfo-0000695341 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Gaultheria procumbens, photographed by Lori B
fig. a Lori B, CC0 1.0 / 2022-06-10 / obs. 204900728
Gaultheria procumbens, photographed by Tom Scavo
fig. b Tom Scavo, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203358991
Gaultheria procumbens, photographed by Steven Lamonde
fig. c Steven Lamonde, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205863389
Gaultheria procumbens, photographed by Alexis Godin
fig. d Alexis Godin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202452650
Gaultheria procumbens, photographed by Pierre Cartier
fig. e Pierre Cartier, CC0 1.0 / obs. 202146730
Gaultheria procumbens, photographed by Liren Varghese
fig. f Liren Varghese, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202313188
Gaultheria procumbens, photographed by Renee Grebe
fig. g Renee Grebe, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201782334
Gaultheria procumbens, photographed by Lynn Harper
fig. h Lynn Harper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 201056804

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Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Flowering n = 717 observations

Peak flowering in Jul, from 717 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 10 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Brossaea procumbens (L.) Kuntze
  • Gaultheria humilis Salisb.
  • Gaultheria procumbens f. accrescens Fernald & Hodgdon
  • Gaultheria procumbens f. elongata Svenson
  • Gaultheria procumbens f. leucocarpa MacKeever
  • Gaultheria procumbens f. procumbens
  • Gaultheria procumbens f. suborbiculata Fernald
  • Gaultheria procumbens f. vitoidea E.H.L.Krause
  • Gaultheria repens Raf.
  • Gautiera procumbens (L.) Torr.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.