in taxon berry plant partridge berry plant Mitchella repens (partridge berry or squaw vine) is the best known plant in the genus *Mitchella*. It is a creeping prostrate herbaceous woody shrub occurring in North America belonging to the madder family (Rubiaceae). The scarlet berries are edible but rather tasteless, with a faint flavour of wintergreen, resembling cranberries (to which they are not closely related). They are often confused with the Newfoundland "partridgeberry"which is actually a relative of the lingonberry. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitchella_repens] PLANTS:MIRE mitchella repens partridgeberry squawvine Mitchella repens requires discussion