Botanical Name: Gaultheria procumbens
Other Names: eastern teaberry, the checkerberry, the boxberry, or the American wintergreen.
Wintergreen is a perennial evergreen shrub indigenous to eastern North America, commonly thriving in wooded and elevated mountainous regions. In late summer, this shrub produces small, waxy, white, or pale pink flowers that evolve into red fruits. Both the leaves and fruits of wintergreen are edible.
Medicine Uses:
- Headache
- Other types of pain
- Fever
- Gas (flatulence) and other conditions
- Treating back pain
- Rheumatism
- Sore throats.
