Kimmernaq • Red (Partridge) berry

Vaccinium vitis-idaea (lingonberry, partridgeberry, mountain cranberry or cowberry) is a short evergreen shrub in the heath family that bears edible fruit, native to boreal forest and Arctic tundra throughout the Northern Hemisphere from Europe and Asia to North America. Lingonberries are picked in the wild and used to accompany a variety of dishes in Northern Baltoscandia, Russia, Canada and Alaska. Commercial cultivation is undertaken in the U.S. Pacific Northwest and in many other regions of the world.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccinium_vitis-idaea)

Main Photo Credit: Lingonberry Vaccinium vitis-idaea var. minus foliage and fruit. Denali Highway, Alaska. by Dawn Endico, 2007. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vaccinium_vitis-idaea_var_minus_Denali_AK.jpg. Licenced with CC BY-SA 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0.
Second Photo Credit: Red Partridge Berry by Mina Kudluarok, 2021. https://siku.org/app#/map/deployment/15755?sidebar=1&lat=56.538307&lng=-79.242348&z=13&satId=topo&adm=15&adm_type=project&adm_id=32. Licenced with Permission.