The dwarf cornel (Cornus Canadensis), which bears a dense cluster of bright red, edible berries.

creeping red-berried perennial herb distinguished by clustered leaf whorls at tips of shoots; Greenland to Alaska

A creeping shrublet more closely resembling a low wildflower. The smallest of our native dogwoods, Cornus canadensis is, in both flower and fruit, one of the more distictive and characteristic of Northwoods plants.