| Scientific Name: | Empetrum nigrum |
| Common Name: | crowberry, crawberry |
| Family Name: | Ericaceae |
| Origin: | Central / west Asia, Europe, North America |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 2: (-46 to -40 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Ground cover |
| Mature Size: | 0.1 - 0.2m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Irregular, Spreading |
| Form: | Creeping / Mat-like |
| Texture: | Fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Attract beneficial insects, Attract birds, Attract butterflies, Ground cover, Medicinal plant, Wetland - bogs |
| Exposure: | Part sun/part shade, Filtered shade |
| Soil or Media: | Acidic |
| Leaves: | Needle-like, Alternate, Succulent, Glabrous, Elliptic, Linear, Ciliate, Entire |
| Flowers: | Flowers solitary, Purple, Dark-red, May-Jun |
| Fruit: | Drupe, Edible, Purple, Black, Aug-Sep |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Habit creeping, matted, to 15cm tall, locally evergreen; branches to 40cm long; leaves needle-like, narrowly elliptical-linear, 3-8mm long x 0.5-1mm wide, edges rolled under forming a deep groove; berry-like drupes, dark bluish purple to black, rounded, 5-10mm wide, 6-9 white pyrenes. | |