Index / Search / Empetrum eamesii ssp. atropurpureum
§1 Plant
Empetrum eamesii Fernald & Wiegand ssp. atropurpureum (Fernald & Wiegand) D. Löve
vernacular purple crowberry — subspecies · Empetraceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Shrub, Subshrub
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Empetraceae Hook. & Lindl.
- Genus
- Empetrum
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
County-level range
· 17 counties across 5 states/territories§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 17 counties across 5 states/territories.
Maine view state ↗ 10 N ▾
Minnesota view state ↗ 1 N ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 3 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 2 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/EMEAA ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/4013040 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
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