Potential new fruit for the northern United States. Lingonberry fruit is an important berry crop harvested from the wild throughout its distribution in northern regions of the world. Among the more common English names are lingonberry, cowberry, moss cranberry, mountain cranberry, partridgeberry, red whortleberry, alpine cranberry or simply lingon or lingen. Simple, petiolate, evergreen, leathery, obovate leaves alternate in a spiral.
Plants reproduce by seeds and rhizomes.
Roots consist of tap roots with finely divided rootlets at the extremities and adventitious roots occurring at nodes along creeping stems and rhizomes. Pollen is borne in tetrads shed through a terminal pore in the anther. V vitis-idaea L. var. Both are distinguished mainly by plant size. Small scale grower evaluation and demonstration trials are proposed concurrent with these objectives.