It is one of several related species referred to as bearberry. Shrubs included grape, sumac, and bearberry and others. One type is mostly composed of a mix of alpine clubmoss and alpine bearberry. Slowly other plants take root in the protected areas, including bearberry (kinnikinnick) and small evergreens. Common names include red fruit bearberry, alpine bearberry, arctic bearberry, red manzanita, and ravenberry. Bearberry and little bluestem grass are the dominant plants. An edible species, it grows in mycorrhizal association with species of pine and bearberry. Also they grow&colon; spindle tree, filbert, bearberry, savoury, carnation, rowan, fern. Hazel, blueberries, sweet fern, bearberry, wintergreen, bracken and reindeer moss provide lush ground cover. The ground cover includes bearberry and teaberry sub-shrubs, lichens and mosses. This dry heath supports juniper, bearberry, crowberry and heather. "Sour gas" is mined in and around Bearberry. An example is arbutin found in the Common Bearberry "Arctostaphylos uva-ursi". Bearberry, which contains arbutin, is a traditional treatment for urinary tract infections.