Vaccinium oxycoccos

10–80 cm long.

The stem is filamentous, procumbent, and creeping on the ground.

The leaves are over-wintering and arranged spirally along the stem. The lamina (6–15 mm x 3–6 mm) is simple, elliptic or ovate, acute, green and lustrous on the adaxial side, nearly white on the abaxial side, and the margin is revolute.

The flowers are bisexual, and arranged in pairs or clusters of many at the summits of branches. The pedicel is pubescent. The corolla (5–7 mm) is four-lobed, rotate and red. The corolla lobes are long and retrorse.

The fruit is a spherical, dark red berry (10–15 mm in diameter).