Understory species include bearberry, mosses, and sedges.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northwest Territories taiga] Reference

He was sick and drank tea from bearberry leaves as tonic, and gradually he became transformed into a black bear.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cold Mountain]

I take three steps on firm ground and then stumble into a gaping pit camouflaged with bearberry and alpine azalea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Field and Stream Adventure: The Search for the Best Brook Trout Spot on Earth] Reference

Older dunes farther inland are carpeted with beach heather, evergreen bearberry, and various lichens such as reindeer moss.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States] Reference

I scream her name—Opal Opal—run past beach heather and bearberry—Opal Opal Opal—and suddenly remember Napeague Harbor beyond the tallest dune.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Worst Thing I've Done] Reference

Black spruce and dwarf larch Larix larieina scrub colonises exposed moraines, giving way to an ericaceous shrub formation in the more exposed and unstable areas with alpine bearberry Anctostaphylos alpina, alpine azalea Loiseleuria procumbens and diapensia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gros Morne National Park, Canada] Reference

Labrador tea, alpine bearberry, dwarf cinquefoil and dwarf birch, willow and balsam fir.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Native Americans were known to use bearberry as a tea to treat urinary tract inflammations.    From Wordnik.com.  [OntheWilderSide] Reference

It contains Arbutin which is an extract from the bearberry plant that has natural whitening properties that brighten the skin.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

However, if you're confident in identifying the edible ones, the bearberry, elderberry, blueberry, high-bush cranberry and serviceberry are safe.    From Wordnik.com.  [AboutMyPlanet.com] Reference

I walk over the shining dark leaves and the scarlet beads of the bearberry, and am presently roaming in the fantastic streets of the dolomitic city.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine] Reference

Genetic tests of the Presidio's Franciscan manzanita found evidence that an ancestor had hybridized with yet another species, bearberry, which has never been documented in the city.    From Wordnik.com.  [SFGate: Top News Stories] Reference

I will here mention some of the best and most common: -- Bitter-root, hoar-hound, black and sampson snake-root, spikenard, columbo-root, goldenseal, bearberry, poplar bark, gum myrrh.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cherokee Physician, or Indian Guide to Health, as Given by Richard Foreman, a Cherokee Doctor; Comprising a Brief View of Anatomy, With General Rules for Preserving Health without the Use of Medicines. The Diseases of the U. States, with Their Symptoms, Causes, and Means of Prevention, are Treated on in a Satisfactory Manner. It Also Contains a Description of a Variety of Herbs and Roots, Many of which are not Explained in Any Other Book, and their Medical Virtues have Hitherto been Unknown to the Whites; To which is Added a Short Dispensatory.] Reference

I'm not sure if it's the altitude affecting my thoughts or heightened awareness, but an unfurling of yoga mats beautifully colour co-ordinates with the deep greens of the bearberry leaves, purple of the saxifrage flowers, and lime green and orange of lichen.    From Wordnik.com.  [canada.com Top Stories] Reference

1 Sacacommis is the bearberry, Arctostaphylos uva-ursi. —.    From Wordnik.com.  [Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806] Reference

Kari carries a swan, Arnes a bunch of ptarmigans, some faggots, and a few tufts of bearberry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Modern Icelandic Plays Eyvind of the Hills; The Hraun Farm] Reference

On cliffs: Campanula rotundifolia (harebell), Cornus Canadensis (dwarf cornel), Arctostaphylos uva-ursi (bearberry), Potentilla tridentata (mountain cinquefoil), Pteris aquilina (common brake).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Maine Woods] Reference

Red bearberry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vegetable Dyes Being a Book of Recipes and Other Information Useful to the Dyer] Reference

Evergreen bearberry.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States] Reference

1,3,7-trimethylxanthine, cassia nomame, taraxacum, green tea extract, bearberry, niacin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wil's Ebay E-Store] Reference

In the transition zone, dwarf birch, Labrador tea, willow, bearberry, mosses, and sedges are dominant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Taiga ecoregion (CEC)] Reference

This upland also produced Cladonia lichens, poverty-grass, savory-leaved aster (Diplopappus linariifolius), mouse-ear, bearberry, &c.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cape Cod] Reference

It is very beautiful in colour, red granite, spotted with orange and black lichen on its face, and carpeted with caribou moss and species of cetraria, great patches of tripe-de-roche, beds of saxifrage, long trailers, and masses of bearberry, empetrum, ground cedar, juniper, cryptograma, and many others; while the trees, willow, birch, and spruce are full of character and drawing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Arctic Prairies : a Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou; Being the Account of a Voyage to the Region North of Aylemer Lake] Reference