Scandinavian Mountains over 2000m - Flora & Fauna

Scandinavian Mountains over 2000 metres - James Baxter

Flora & FaunaPurple Flowers & Plants › Cowberry

Vaccinium vitis-idaea, Cowberry, Tytebær. Low.

Cowberry
Prostrate creeping subshrub with oblong untoothed leaves with margins rolled under. Flowers are pink and bell shaped. The red berry is 5-10mm and is edible but bitter.

Common in woods, scrub and moors.