Creeping Blueberry is a genuinely rare native, endemic to only four southeastern US states and well suited to the sandy, acidic soils of savannas, pine flatwoods, and coastal barrens. Growing ten to twenty inches tall, it spreads along horizontal stems to form a dense evergreen carpet with remarkable textural interest across the seasons. New growth emerges in spring with a warm bronze-copper flush before hardening to dark, leathery, closely-packed green leaves. In April, clusters of small pinkish bell-shaped flowers open along the stems, drawing butterflies and other pollinators, and edible berries follow in summer with a flavor that in the cultivar 'Well's Delight' carries a faint aromatic note.

The plant is unforgiving about one thing: it cannot tolerate lime or alkaline soils in any amount, so only acidic, well-drained sandy to loam ground will do. Beyond that constraint it is drought tolerant and reasonably heat tolerant through the warmer parts of its zone 6 to zone 9 range. Because it dislikes root disturbance, establishing plants in containers before setting them in their permanent location reduces transplant stress considerably. The two named cultivars, 'Well's Delight' and 'Bloodstone', are particularly dense in habit and frequently recommended specifically as ground covers where an evergreen, low-maintenance, edible carpet would serve the garden.