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Bearberry is a groundcover shrub (woody), a sprawler like a creeping juniper(J. hortizonalis). I usually observe it in and adjacent to rock outcroppings.

Wintergreen like bearberry is a deciduous evergreen woody perennial(shrub), with a similar shaped leaves but the wintergreen's is larger and in fewer numbers. Wintergreen is also stoloniferous, think underground strawberry runners, bearberry on the other hand is not- it is a creeper rerooting as it goes about its business. They both have light pinkish bell shaped flowers, from my recollection. Wintergreen's berries are larger than bearberry but both are red. They are woody shrubs (woody perennials) even though they are ground hugging in stature.

The fragrance of the foliage is probably one of the easiest ways to discern the difference...

The wintergreen that I have observed has been mostly growing in acid duff that is well drained, moist, and with good snowcover in the dead of winter and some filtered shade in summer...actually most of what I have observed for colonies have been found on a south easterly slope in combination with pine (jack and red) and then in WI (on sand with oak and white pine).

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Hope this helps...and kale is a well traveling substitute for the L; where's the T anyway?