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Side by side
What tells them apart
They share the sierra and the family. Bearberry is prostrate, with a leathery evergreen leaf and a dry red berry; bilberry is upright, with a thin deciduous leaf and a juicy dark blue berry.
Harmless confusion
How to tell it
A shrub twenty to fifty centimetres tall, with green angular-sectioned stems, which is rare and very characteristic. Small oval finely toothed leaves, deciduous. Dark blue berries with a waxy bloom and a crown at the top.
How to tell it
Prostrate, forming dense mats over rock and poor soil. Small, oval, leathery, glossy leaves with a smooth margin, evergreen. White-pink bell flowers. Glossy red berries, dry and mealy inside. Range: mainly a Spanish plant, practically absent from Portugal.