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Other common names for ''G. procumbens'' include American mountain tea, boxberry, Canada tea, canterberry, checkerberry, chickenberry, creeping wintergreen, deerberry, drunkards, gingerberry, ground berry, ground tea, grouseberry, hillberry, mountain tea, one-berry, procalm, red pollom, spice berry, squaw vine, star berry, spiceberry, spicy wintergreen, spring wintergreen, teaberry, wax cluster, and youngsters.<ref name=AGM /><ref name=Lust>{{cite book|last=Lust|first=John|year=1974|title=The Herb Book|publisher=Bantam Books|page=404|isbn=978-0-553-26770-9|url={{Google Books |id=FjkMAAAACAAJ |page=404 |plainurl=1}} |accessdate=2008-08-10}}</ref>
 
While this plant is sometimes mistakenly known as partridge berry,<ref name=Hall>{{cite book|last=Hall|first=Joan Houston|year=2002|title=Dictionary of American Regional English|publisher=Harvard University Press|page=47|isbn=978-0-674-00884-7|url={{Google Books |id=i33BWgxbvXgC |page=47 |plainurl=1}} |accessdate=2007-11-16}}</ref> that name more often refers to the ground cover ''[[Mitchella repens]].''
 
==Traditional use==