Cranberry, American Select

Vaccinium macrocarpon ‘Select’

Native. Zone 2-7. Sun/Part Shade.Self Fertile.

Perennial Native to Northeast bogs and wetlands, American Cranberry is grown as an edible grown cover where soils stay moist. Cranberry is self-fertile and produces large deep-red fruit. This evergreen likes acidic wet soils. Small, glossy, leathery leaves, bronzy in spring and dark-green in summer, turn a variety of colors in fall. They also can produce in a container or hanging baskets as long as a saucer of water is kept underneath.