Empetrum

• Authority

  Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

• Family

  Empetraceae

• Scientific Name

  Empetrum

• Description

  Genus Description - Fls unisexual or (ours) often perfect; sep, pet, and stamens each 4; filaments elongate; ovary depressed-globose, 6–9-locular; style very short, with 6–9 expanded, spreading, toothed or lobed stigmas; fr a drupe with 6–9 stones, the style persistent; dwarf, much-branched shrubs with greenish or purplish fls subsessile in the axils; x=13. 2, mainly cool N. Hemisphere.

• Common Names

  crowberry