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Empetrum hermaphroditum
About
Empetrum nigrum, the crowberry, black crowberry, mossberry, rockberry, or, in western Alaska, Labrador, etc., blackberry, is a flowering plant species in the heather family Ericaceae with a near circumboreal distribution in the Northern Hemisphere. The scientific name of the plant comes from the combination of the Greek for 'upon a rock' and the Latin for black. North American Indigenous names for this species include asiavik (Iñupiaq), dineechʼúh (Gwichʼin), paurngaq (Inuktut), xéelʼi (Tlingít), xa skáawaa (Haida), and ts'nełt'ida (Dena’ina).
- Family
- Ericaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Empetrum hermaphroditum
- Slug
- empetrum-hermaphroditum
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Ericaceae
- Genus
- Empetrum
- Species
- hermaphroditum
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 28
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