Common Name: common bear berry
Type: Herbaceous perennial
Family: Ericaceae
Zone: 2 to 6
Height: 0.50 to 1.00 feet
Spread: 3.00 to 6.00 feet
Bloom Time: April to May
Bloom Description: White with tinge of pink
Sun: Full sun to part shade
Water: Dry to medium
Maintenance: Low
Suggested Use: Ground Cover
Attracts: Birds
Tolerate: Erosion
✌ Plant Characteristics
Habit: Shrub
Leaf Retention: Evergreen
Leaf Arrangement: Alternate
Leaf Complexity: Simple
Leaf Shape: Ob-ovate
Leaf Margin: Entire
Breeding System: Flowers Bisexual
Inflorescence: Panicle , Raceme
Size Notes: Height 6-12 inches, spread up to 15 feet.
Leaf: Glossy dark green, reddish in the winter.
Autumn Foliage: yes
Flower: Flowers urn-shaped to 1/3 inch.
Fruit: Bright red 1/4 inch across
Size Class: 1-3 ft.
✌ Bloom Information
Bloom Color: White , Pink
Bloom Time: Mar , Apr , May , Jun
Bloom Notes: Flowers urn-shaped, waxy, white tinged with pink.
✌ Garden locations
New England state - Connecticut Maine Massachusetts New Hampshire Rhode Island Vermont
Growth form - the plant is a shrub (i.e., a woody plant with several stems growing from the base)
Leaf type - the leaf blade is simple (i.e., lobed or unlobed but not separated into leaflets)
Leaves per node - there is one leaf per node along the stem
Leaf blade edges - the edge of the leaf blade has no teeth or lobes
Leaf duration - the leaves remain green all winter
Armature on plant - the plant does not have spines, prickles, or thorns
Leaf blade length - 10–25 mm
Leaf blade width - 5–15 mm
Leaf stalk - the leaves have leaf stalks
Fruit type (general) - the fruit is fleshy
Bark texture - the bark of an adult plant peels off easily or hangs off
Twig winter color - brown, gray, red
Bud scale number - there are two scales on the winter bud, and their edges meet
✌ Growing Conditions
Light Requirement: Sun , Part Shade , Shade
Soil Moisture: Dry , Moist
Soil pH: Acidic (pH<6.8)
CaCO3 Tolerance: Medium
Drought Tolerance: High
Cold Tolerant: yes
Heat Tolerant: yes
Soil Description: Rocky or sandy, acid soils.
Conditions Comments: Soil should not be compacted around the plants and they should not be fertilized.
✌ Benefit
Use Wildlife: The fruit is edible but mealy and tasteless; it is much favored by birds and other wildlife.
Use Food: The Okanogan-Colville cooked the berries with venison or salmon, or dried them into cakes and ate the cakes with salmon eggs. Various indigenous groups in California prepared a cider-like beverage from the berries.
Use Medicinal: The Haida used it as a diuretic for kidney diseases and urinary tract infections.
Use Other: First Nations used to smoke this before tobacco was available.
Conspicuous Flowers: yes
Interesting Foliage: yes
Attracts: Butterflies , Hummingbirds
Larval Host: Hoary Elfin (Callophrys polia), Brown Elfin (C. augustinus), Freija Fritillary (Boloria freija)
✌ Propagation
Propagation Material: Seeds , Softwood Cuttings
Description: They are very difficult to transplant from the wild, but softwood cuttings are readily rooted. The surest means of propagation is by treated cuttings rooted in sand or layering.
Seed Collection: The outer fleshy part of the fruit may be removed by macerating the fruits with water and separating the nut lets by flotation or air- screening.
Seed Treatment: Remove seed from pulp. Plant outside in fall, 3/4 deep. Seeds germinate the second year after sowing. Seeds have impermeable seed coats and dormant embryos; acid scarification for 3-6 hours followed by 2-3 months of warm and 2-3 months of cold stratification.
Commercially Avail: yes
Maintenance: Prune to thin out dead or dying wood.
🌹 Bear berry, (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi), likewise called kinnikinnick, blooming prostrate evergreen bushes of the heath family (Ericaceae), happening generally all through the northern ranges of Europe, Asia, and North America in rough and sandy woods and in open territories. It has woody stems that are regularly 1.5–1.8 meters (5–6 feet) in length.
🌹 Roots create from the stem, and the plant spreads, shaping an expansive, gigantic ground spread. The foliage turns bronzy in winter. The leaf edges are rolled and bordered with hairs.
🌹 The blossoms, which open from the get-go in the spring, might be white, pink, or pink-tipped in shading; the blossoms are looking like a restricted mouthed chime and are borne in little groups at the closures of the twigs. The berries are red.
🌹 Uva ursi (of the class Arctostaphylos) is a plant animal groups additionally usually alluded to as bear berry, kinnikinnick, bear grape, rock berry, sand berry, and then some. In spite of the fact that uva ursi is in many cases utilized conversely with the name bear berry, it is really one of a few varieties of bear berry. The Latin name uva ursi was inferred in light of the fact that the plant's red berries are eaten by bears—the name truly means "bear's grape."
🌹 The various names for uva ursi can be confounding. Numerous specialists allude to the Arctostaphylos variety as uva ursi, however others likewise allude to its strains—including Arctostaphylos adentricha and Arctostaphylos coactylis—as uva ursi.
✌ Medical advantages
🌹 The uva ursi is a low-developing evergreen bush. It's said to make a phenomenal plant for ground spread, and it develops well in rough soils in full or fractional sun. The plant develops in a wide scope of territories, including open forests, sandy sea shores, and even in rough soils.
🌹 Uva ursi has ruddy earthy colored branches with pink and white blossoms that get supplanted with bunches of red berries in the mid year.
✌ Culture
🌹 Develop in acidic, dry to medium, very much depleted, sandy or abrasive soils in full sun. Endures light shade. Typically develops well in poor barren soils. Plants ought not be treated.
🌹 Dry spell lenient once settled. Preferences uncovered open locales. Best developed in USDA Zones 2-6 (7). Develops ineffectively in sweltering and moist summer atmospheres, and isn't suggested for planting in many territories south of USDA Zone 7.
🌹 Hard to relocate from nature. Proliferate by cuttings from the ebb and flow season's development, by layering, by division (with care since roots loathe aggravation) or species plants by seed.
✌ Important Characteristics
🌹 Arctostaphylos uva-ursi, known by countless normal names including basic bear berry and kinninnick, is an incredibly winter tough, crawling, slow-developing, prostrate, woody evergreen bush that commonly develops to 6-12" tall however spreads after some time by adaptable expanding (roots at the hubs) to 3-6' wide or more.
🌹 This is a circumpolar ground-hugger which is local all through the northern pieces of North America, Europe as well as Asia.
🌹 In North America, it is normally found in an assortment of areas from Alaska to Newfoundland south through Canada to Virginia, Illinois, South Dakota, New Mexico and focal California in an assortment of natural surroundings ordinarily including gravelly and additionally sandy uncovered destinations, dry/rough inclines/outcrops, backwoods edges and timberland clearings.
🌹 It is principally bound to cool elevated areas in the more southern pieces of its developing reach (Appalachians in Virginia, Rockies in New Mexico and Sierras in California).
🌹 Branchlets develop to ruddy earthy colored, with papery stripping bark on more seasoned twigs. Branchlets are clad with substitute, whole, short-followed, rugged, adjusted at-the-tip, obovate to spatulate, evergreen dull green leaves (each to 1/4" long) which are sparkly above however paler underneath.
🌹 Leaves turn bronze in winter before turning out to be green again in spring. Smaller than usual, hanging, urn-molded, white-to-pink blossoms (to 1/4" long) in little terminal groups sprout in April to May.
🌹 Adjusted, berry-like organic products (drupes) mature in August-September. Every drupe (1/2" long) contains 5 nut lets (seeds). Drupes are green in summer maturing to red in fall, now and again staying on the plants all through winter.
🌹 Drupes are self-contradicting crude off the plant, however better when originally bubbled. Natural products are in fact eatable for people, yet are commonly viewed as coarse and lacking flavor.
🌹 Meriwether Lewis depicted these natural products in 1806 to be "bland and dull." On the in addition to side, bears, winged animals and little well evolved creatures love the organic products.
🌹 Class name originates from the Greek words arctos importance bear and staphyle significance pack of grapes concerning the natural products (regularly in grape-like groups) which are generally eaten by bears.
🌹 The particular sobriquet originates from the Latin words uva meaning grape and ursus importance bear consequently bear's grape, additionally concerning the natural products serving in the wild as bear food. Bear berry moniker implies something very similar, specifically, that bears eat the products of this plant.
🌹 One of the well known regular names for this plant is kinnikinnick which is an Algonquin word significance smoking blend. Local Americans and later early pioneers here and there smoked the dried leaves of bear berry (alone or blended in with different leaves, tobacco and additionally the dry inward bark of red osier dogwood) in pipes.
🌹 'Massachusetts' is a prostrate, level developing plant that is noted for delivering bountiful blossoms and organic products. Littler leaves than those found on species plants. Great malady opposition.
✌ How Does Uva Ursi Work?
🌹 Uva Ursi attempts to decrease microscopic organisms in the pee since it has synthetic compounds called glycosides. In the body, glycosides are changed into hydroquinone, which has antibacterial properties.
🌹 Moreover, uva ursi is thought to bring down irritation with its astringent impact on mucous films, however the clinical examination proof doesn't completely bolster this case.
🌹 Uva ursi's disease battling properties originate from a few of the plant's common synthetic substances, including arbutin and hydroquinone. It additionally has tannins, a property that empowers uva ursi to have an astringent impact.
🌹 This impact is what is thought to fit helping battle disease by diminishing irritation. Progressively logical exploration is expected to confirm uva ursi's mitigating properties.
🌹 As an effective (applied to the skin) specialist, uva ursi was seen as viable as a skin helping operator in a pilot investigation of sound grown-ups.
🌹 Hyper pigmentation was hindered in four out of six investigation members who were presented to bright light in the wake of utilizing an effective use of a subordinate of uva ursi (called arbutin).
✌ Clinical Uses
🌹 There are a few normal clinical employments of uva ursi, which need more proof to back up viability claims (a significant number of which are made by home grown item organizations).
🌹 In case it's conceivable that uva ursi could help with different sicknesses, more proof is expected to decide its security and viability. Different manifestations and conditions that are believed to be conceivably helped by uva ursi include:
✌ advancing mending
✌ calming stomach upset
✌ boosting the safe framework
✌ lessening irritation
✌ detoxifying the body
✌ growing of the bladder and urethra
✌ growing of the urinary plot
✌ stoppage
✌ kidney diseases
✌ bronchitis
✌ different conditions ...
✌ Conceivable Side Effects
🌹 In case uva ursi is viewed as moderately alright for grown-ups when taken by mouth for a brief span, long haul use and taking high portions might be extremely risky. The symptoms of momentary use may include:
✌ Queasiness
✌ Spewing
✌ Annoyed stomach
✌ Staining of the pee (greenish-earthy colored)
✌ Sleep deprivation
✌ Fractiousness
🌹 Long haul use and additionally taking high dosages of uva ursi may result in:
✌ Liver damage
✌ Kidney harm
✌ Breathing challenges
✌ Eye issues
✌ Seizures
✌ Demise
🌹 Indications of poisonous to search for include:
✌ Ringing in the ears (tinnitus)
✌ Sickness and heaving
✌ Feeling of suffocation
✌ Windedness
✌ Seizures
✌ Incoherence
✌ Breakdown
✌ Issues
🌹 No genuine bug or infection issues. Whenever developed in inadequately depleted locales or in atmospheres more blazing than liked, this bear berry turns out to be progressively vulnerable to specific maladies, for example, root decay, dark buildup, leaf nerve, leaf spot and rust.
🌹 'Massachusetts' has great protection from leaf nerve and leaf spot.
✌ Nursery Uses
🌹 Moderate to enormous scope ground spread with all year intrigue. Assists control with dirtying disintegration on inclines and slopes.
🌹 Powerful when developed around bushes, along bright fringe edges, in naturalized zones and in local plant gardens. Spice gardens. Wrap over a divider. Rock gardens.
🌹 Teas have been produced using certain plant parts (leaves, stems and roots) for an assortment of therapeutic purposes (sterile, astringent and diuretic).
🌹 Leaves are wealthy in tannins and have been utilized during the time spent treating leathers/cowhide. Branches of green leaves with red berries might be utilized as Christmas improvements.
✌ Security Measures
🌹 There are a few security gauges that ought to be followed when taking uva ursi.
🌹 Continuously talk with a doctor or other human services supplier before taking uva ursi as a result of its possibly poisonous reactions, for example, liver harm.
🌹 Get some information about how to guarantee (with diet or enhancements) that your pee is basic on the grounds that uva ursi isn't as powerful with an acidic pee (acidic PH in the pee devastates its antibacterial impact).
🌹 Substances that make the pee progressively acidic, for example, nutrient C, cranberry juice, squeezed orange, and different citrus foods grown from the ground ought to be kept away from.
🌹 Talk with a specialist to check whether it's safe for you to take uva ursi whenever there's any hint of an UTI—that is the point at which the home grown enhancement is best.
✌ Measurements as well as Preparation
🌹 Uva ursi is accessible industrially as squashed leaf and powder arrangements, including tea, colors, and cases to be taken by mouth.
🌹 Subordinates of the plant are likewise utilized for effective skin arrangements. Just the leaves are utilized not the berries in home grown therapeutic arrangements.
🌹 Because of the potential for poisonous, a doctor ought to be counseled before taking uva ursi. Specialists suggest abstaining from taking the spice for longer than about fourteen days (moderate sources suggest constraining the term of uva ursi to close to five days) and close to five times each year.
🌹 As a dried spice, 2 to 4 grams for each day with an aggregate of 400 to 800 milligrams of arbutin is a standard dose. To make a tea, absorb 3 grams of dried leaves 5 ounces of water for 12 hours—at that point strain the tea and drink it three to multiple times every day.
🌹 Note, it is imperative to abstain from taking an excessive amount of uva ursi. As indicated by one source, even 15 grams (1/2 ounce) of dried uva ursi leaves can be poisonous in certain individuals.
✌ Blossoms
🌹 Little bunches of white-pink roses hang down from the tips of branches. Their five petals are combined, giving them a Topsy turvy frilly-jar look.
🌹 Blossoms can show up whenever from April to July. Natural product creates toward the finish of summer. Blossoms produce red, glossy berries that are fairly boring.
✌ Leaves
🌹 Leaves are exchange, short-followed, and they overwinter. Leaf sharp edges are obovate, 1 to 3 cm (0.4 to 1.2") long, weathered, glabrous, underside is green, and they have an unmistakable net-like leaf venation.
✌ Tallness
🌹 Bear berry normally develops to 15 to 20 cm (6 to 8") tall. Its more seasoned stems will in general be ruddy earthy colored to dark, genuinely smooth and stripping, though new stems can be redder and secured with smooth hair.
✌ Living space
🌹 Bear berries commonly develop along sandy and rough zones including shorelines, slants, edges, ridges and in coniferous and blended woods. This tough plant develops at different levels from ocean level to sub-high.
🌹 They additionally develop in dry woodland heaths, sand and rock banks. It is the main Arctostaphylos species to happen outside of North America, extending across northern Europe and Asia and it is found in the mountains of Guatemala.
✌ Eatable Parts
🌹 The brilliant red berries are palatable and youthful leaves are regularly utilized as tea.
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