Bearberry and its leaves are used for many purposes:

• in the tobacco : Its leaves are used for smoking in a pipe. Several Native American tribes incorporated the leaves into their smoking blends.
• the kitchen : The leaf can give the jam a distinctive flavor
• in the’horticulture : This plant is sold as a groundcover. It makes a perfect creeping groundcover.
• use pharmaceutical : The leaf has diuretic and antiseptic properties

Did you know? The bearberry berry is called the common bearberry. This berry is very popular in herbal tea or regular tea.

Origin and Quality

Source: Spain, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Russia

The leaves are harvested by hand from wild plants between August and September. They are then left to dry in the open air.

States and Packaging

To meet all your needs, our bearberry leaves are available in three forms:

• entire
• cut
• in powder form

Uva Ursi is a small subshrub with creeping, prostrate stems and alternate, evergreen, leathery, spatulate leaves that are rounded at the tip. These small, thick, leathery, entire leaves are spatulate at the tip and tapered at the base.