On cold or rainy days, the honey bees are not too active and when they are, they often bypass these small cranberry blossoms, about an quarter of an inch long, in favor of large white water-lily blossoms, 3 to 6 inches, in the nearby ponds. Europeans named the fruit “crane berry” because they thought the cranberry blossom looked like the head of a sandhill crane.
Tiny Cranberry Blossom
