Mats of partridgeberry produce small white flowers in June and hold their red fruit well into the following year.

The sitting area is bounded by a collar of partridgeberry, pipsissewa, wintergreen and small shrubs.

The partridgeberry muffins - a Newfoundland treat - are just 75 Canadian cents each.

In another woods, Mr. Levi was crowing over a bit of partridgeberry discovered, mere minutes from the highway.

In the garden, goldthread and partridgeberry spread their roots just below the surface and columbine sends down its taproot for a foot or more.

An old baptismal font, picked up for $20 at an antiques shop, is planted with reindeer moss, little sedums and partridgeberry.

And yet as he struggled through the growth of sumac and partridgeberry, he knew even better that this place could swallow him without a second's hesitation.

Or else there's a triple sorbet of blueberry, partridgeberry and bakeapple, a sweet, seeded apricot-colored marsh berry indigenous only to Newfoundland.

When I visited the shelves were laden with bakeapple, partridgeberry, pincherry, dogberry, crab apple rosehip and marshberry jams.

The forest understory supports mountain laurel, witch-hazel, wintergreen, hobblebush, partridgeberry, as well as a variety of herbs, ferns and mosses.

Vaccinium vitis-idaea - Partridgeberry, Cowberry, Redberry, Red Whortleberry, or Lingonberry (northern North America and Eurasia)

Common names for Mitchella repens include partridge berry (or partridgeberry), squaw berry, two-eyed berry, running fox, and Noon kie oo nah yeah (in the Mohawk language).

Other names include csejka berry, foxberry, quailberry, beaverberry, mountain cranberry, red whortleberry, bearberry, lowbush cranberry, cougarberry, mountain bilberry, partridgeberry (in Newfoundland and Cape Breton Island), and redberry (in Labrador).

Checkerberry, Deerberry, Hive Vine, Mitchella repens, Noon Kie Oo Nah Yeah, One-Berry, Partridgeberry, Running Box, Squaw Berry, Trébol de Invierno, Twinberry, Two-Eyed Berry, Winter Clover.

Subsequent months bring new crops: pink and yellow lady slippers in May, tall meadow rue, foamflower and partridgeberry in June; monkey flowers and cardinal flowers in July, swamp mallow roses in August and Joe Pye weed and monkshood in September.

Lonicera involucrata (bearberry honeysuckle)

Caterpillars feed on Bracted Honeysuckle (Lonicera involucrata).

Common shrubs and herbs are: saskatoon, red-osier dogwood, raspberry, wild rose, currants and bracted honeysuckle, wild sarsaparilla, hairy lungwort, asters, and peavine.

Caterpillars feed on Bracted Honeysuckle (Lonicera involucrata).

Lonicera involucrata (bearberry honeysuckle)

Caterpillars feed on Bracted Honeysuckle (Lonicera involucrata).

Common shrubs and herbs are: saskatoon, red-osier dogwood, raspberry, wild rose, currants and bracted honeysuckle, wild sarsaparilla, hairy lungwort, asters, and peavine.

The floodplain of the Upper Adams contains wetland species of deciduous trees such as black cottonwood as well as a dense layer of shrubs including black twinberry, red-osier dogwood, and thimbleberry.

Caterpillars feed on Bracted Honeysuckle (Lonicera involucrata).