Photo: Ivar Leidus — CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
Survives zone 2 through 7
⚠ Honestly: only 2–6 large translucent red drupelets per fruit — sharply acidic, more curiosity than crop; used for cordial in Scandinavia.
- Hardiness
- Zone 2 to 7
- Habit
- Shrub
- Edible part
- Fruit
- Ripens
- July–Aug
- Mature size
- Low herbaceous-stemmed runner 20–40 cm; spreads by stolons
- Light
- Partial to shade — a genuine woodland understorey species
- Soil pH
- 6.0–7.5 (lime-tolerant)
- Environment
- Boreal and montane woodland
- Status
- Wild
- Years to fruit
- 2–3 yrs
- Pollination
- Self-fertile