Plant in the heather family Ericaceae
For other shrubs sometimes called "crowberry", see
Bearberry.
Black crowberry
|
|
Scientific classification
|
Kingdom:
|
Plantae
|
Clade:
|
Tracheophytes
|
Clade:
|
Angiosperms
|
Clade:
|
Eudicots
|
Clade:
|
Asterids
|
Order:
|
Ericales
|
Family:
|
Ericaceae
|
Genus:
|
Empetrum
|
Species:
|
E. nigrum
|
Binomial name
|
Empetrum nigrum
|
Synonyms[2]
|
- Chamaetaxus nigra (L.) Bubani
- Empetrum arcticum V.N.Vassil.
- Empetrum crassifolium Raf.
- Empetrum eamesii subsp. hermaphroditum (Hagerup) D.Löve
- Empetrum hermaphroditum Hagerup
- Empetrum hermaphroditum var. americanum V.N.Vassil.
- Empetrum medium Carmich.
- Empetrum nigrum f. cylindricum Lepage
- Empetrum nigrum var. hermaphroditum (Hagerup) T.Sørensen
- Empetrum nigrum subsp. hermaphroditum (Hagerup) Böcher
- Empetrum nigrum f. purpureum (Raf.) Fernald
- Empetrum nigrum var. purpureum (Raf.) A.DC.
- Empetrum purpureum Raf.
|
Empetrum nigrum, crowberry,[3] black crowberry, mossberry, 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.