Ericaceae
Alpine spicy wintergreen
Gaultheria humifusa
- Family
- Ericaceae
- Genus
- Gaultheria
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Common names
By language (4)
- arz
- جولثريا هوميفوسا
- English
- Alpine spicy wintergreen, Alpine spicywintergreen, Alpine wintergreen, Matted wintergreen, Western wintergreen
- French
- Gaulthérie alpestre
- Hungarian
- Alpesi fajdbogyó
Synonyms
- Brossaea myrsinites (Hook.) Kuntze
- Gaultheria myrsinites Hook.
- Vaccinium humifusum Graham
- Vaccinium obtusum Pursh
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Shrub, Subshrub
- Lifespan
- Perennial
- In the US and Canada
- Canada: native, Lower 48 states: native
Photos
Photo: nordique, CC BY 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Matt Lavin from Bozeman, Montana, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Matt Lavin from Bozeman, Montana, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Matt Lavin from Bozeman, Montana, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Matt Lavin from Bozeman, Montana, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Matt Lavin from Bozeman, Montana, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Matt Lavin from Bozeman, Montana, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Matt Lavin from Bozeman, Montana, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Matt Lavin from Bozeman, Montana, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Chloe and Trevor Van Loon https://www.inaturalist.org/people/chloe_and_trevor, CC BY 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Chloe and Trevor Van Loon https://www.inaturalist.org/people/chloe_and_trevor, CC BY 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Chloe and Trevor Van Loon https://www.inaturalist.org/people/chloe_and_trevor, CC BY 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.