Highbush Cranberry vs Creeping Oregon Grape - TreeTime.ca

Highbush Cranberry vs Creeping Oregon Grape

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Viburnum opulus var. americanum (trilobum)

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Creeping Oregon Grape
Highbush Cranberry

Creeping Oregon Grape is an excellent ground cover plant with attractive, dark green, holly-like leaves. It maintains its leaves throughout winter, which turn mauve, rose, and rust-colored. Clusters of bright, yellow flowers develop into dark, blue-purple edible berries ideal for juice or wine.

Highbush Cranberry produces attractive white flowers in late June and bears edible fruit that matures to a bright red colour in the late summer.

This shrub, native to much of Canada, is fast growing, and its fruit can be eaten raw or cooked into a sauce.

Creeping Oregon Grape Quick Facts

Highbush Cranberry Quick Facts

Zone: 5a
Zone: 2a
Height: 0.3 m (1.0 ft)
Height: 4 m (13 ft)
Spread: 0.5 m (1.5 ft)
Spread: 2.7 m (9 ft)
Light: partial shade, full sun
Light: partial shade, full sun
Moisture: dry, normal
Moisture: normal
Growth rate: slow
Growth rate: medium
Life span: long
Life span: medium
Suckering: medium
Suckering: none
Maintenance: medium


Fall colour: purple and bronze
Flowers: yellow
Flowers: white clusters
Fruit: large blue/purple
Berries: edible red berries
Hybrid: no
Hybrid: no
Catkins: no
Catkins: no


In row spacing: 0.6 m (2.0 ft)
Between row spacing: 5 m (16 ft)
Native to: AB, BC
Native to: AB, BC, SK, MB, ON, QC, NS, NB, NL, PE
Other Names: ash barberry, creeping barberry, creeping holly grape, creeping mahonia, creeping oregon-grape, creeping western barberry, holly grape, mountain holly, oregon barberry
Other Names: american cranberrybush, american cranberrybush viburnum, high bush cranberry, kalyna