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Empetrum nigrum is a species of plant in the family Ericaceae. It belongs to the genus Empetrum and is classified within the order Ericales, class Magnoliopsida, phylum Tracheophyta, and kingdom Plantae. Common names for this taxon include black crowberry, Kraaihei, šicha černá, and creiglusen.
The species has a native range that includes Alaska, Albania, Alberta, the Aleutian Islands, Altay, Amur, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, British Columbia, Bulgaria, and Buryatiya. It has been introduced to Minnesota. Records also indicate a presence in Xinjiang. The taxon is documented in the Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition.
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Species
SPECIES
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderEricales
- FamilyEricaceae
岩高兰（学名：Empetrum nigrum）为岩高兰科岩高兰属下的一个种。
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 6,625
- With media
- 5,671
- Family
- Ericaceae
- Collections
- UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA MUSEUMS, RSA, NEON, OSU, QUE, CMN
- Recorded in
- Canada, United States
Wikidata facts
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- Empetrum nigrum
- taxon common name
- 岩高兰
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- short name
- E. nigrum
- taxon range
- Xinjiang
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Encyclopedic overview
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' (en = upon + petros = rock) and the Latin for black (niger). 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).
Description
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Empetrum nigrum” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.