The leaves and fruit of the Common bearberry (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi), also known as Kinnikinnick.


Arctostaphylos uva-ursi is a plant species of the genus Arctostaphylos widely distributed across circumboreal regions of the subarctic Northern Hemisphere. Kinnikinnick (First Nations for "smoking mixture") is a common name in Canada and the United States. It is one of several related species referred to as bearberry. Its specific name uva-ursi means "grape of the bear" in Latin (ūva ursī), similar to the meaning of the generic epithet Arctostaphylos ("bear grapes"). *** Description sourced from Wikipedia (2020).


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Location: Abkhazi Garden, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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