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Purple crowberry

Empetrum eamesii

Also called Pink Crowberry, Rock Crowberry, Rockberry

Family
Ericaceae (Heather family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
E. Canada
Climate
temperate

About

Empetrum eamesii, common name purple crowberry, is a North American species of dwarf evergreen shrub.

Where it grows

It is native to eastern Canada and the northeastern US. It has been reported from sand dunes, rocky outcrops, and alpine heath in Québec, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York State, the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, Minnesota (Cook County), Newfoundland and Labrador and Saint Pierre and Miquelon.

Other Empetrum plants

Korean Crowberry · Black crowberry · Diddle Dee · Crowberry

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Empetrum eamesii by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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