Viburnum edule
High-Bush Cranberry

Family: Caprifoliaceae (Honeysuckle family)

Photo taken in upper Icicle River Canyon, moist shaded woods

Flowers:

inflorescence small, generally 1 to 2.5 cm wide at anthesis, with less than 50 flowers; corolla 0.4 to 0.7 cm across; stamens inconspicuous, the filament 1 mm or less

Fruit:

bright red berry with a white flattened seed, about 1 cm long and wide

Leaves:

shallowly trilobed and sharply toothed; leaf generally slightly longer than wide, 6 to 13 cm long; hairy lower surface especially on veins, margin ciliate, upper surface glabrous

Plant:

shrub generally 1 to 3 meters tall; bark brown and peeling. Berries eaten by the Okanagan-Colville and Thompson.

Habitat:

moist woods and swamps

Distribution of species:

boreal American species, from Alaska south to northern Oregon, Idaho and Colorado

Distribution of genus:

more or less 200 species, northern temperate and subtropical