The sweet-scented geranium abounded and so did the crowberry, which is a finer and sweeter kind than that which grows nearer the settlement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Years in Tristan da Cunha] Reference

Our dinner was provided for us, the Greens sending stuffed sucking-pig and others crowberry open tarts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Years in Tristan da Cunha] Reference

Getting out of this we next trudged over grassy slopes on which were growing fine specimens of the crowberry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Years in Tristan da Cunha] Reference

Svalbardarable land: 0% permanent crops: 0% other: 100% (no trees; the only bushes are crowberry and cloudberry) (2005).    From Wordnik.com.  [Land use] Reference

Land use: arable land: 0% permanent crops: 0% other: 100% (no trees; the only bushes are crowberry and cloudberry) (2005).    From Wordnik.com.  [Svalbard] Reference

Svalbard arable land: 0\% permanent crops: 0\% other: 100\% (no trees, and the only bushes are crowberry and cloudberry) (2001).    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference

Svalbard arable land: 0\% permanent crops: 0\% other: 100\% (no trees, and the only bushes are crowberry and cloudberry) (2005).    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2007 CIA World Factbook] Reference

Land use: arable land: 0\% permanent crops: 0\% other: 100\% (no trees, and the only bushes are crowberry and cloudberry) (2001).    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference

Land use: arable land: 0\% permanent crops: 0\% other: 100\% (no trees, and the only bushes are crowberry and cloudberry) (2005).    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2007 CIA World Factbook] Reference

Typical species are dwarf birch Betula nana, Arctic crowberry Empetrum nigrum ssp. hermaphroditum and Arctic blueberry Vaccinium uliginosum ssp. microphyllum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ilulissat Icefjord, Denmark-Greenland] Reference

This is a diverse community of ferns, sedges, grasses, angiosperms and mosses and is dominated by B. palmiforme, crowberry Empetrum rumbrum, grasses and sedges.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gough Island Wildlife Reserve, United Kingdom] Reference

It consists chiefly of low mats of such herbaceous and shrubby species as dwarf arctic birch, crowberry, Labrador-tea, arctic willow, resin birch, and dwarf blueberry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brooks Range Tundra - Polar Desert Province (Bailey)] Reference

Land use: arable land: 0\% permanent crops: 0\% permanent pastures: 0\% forests and woodland: 0\% other: 100\% (no trees and the only bushes are crowberry and cloudberry).    From Wordnik.com.  [The 1999 CIA Factbook] Reference

Land use: arable land: 0\% permanent crops: 0\% meadows and pastures: 0\% forest and woodland: 0\% other: 100\% (no trees and the only bushes are crowberry and cloudberry).    From Wordnik.com.  [The 1996 CIA Factbook] Reference

Land use: arable land: 0\% permanent crops: 0\% permanent pastures: 0\% forests and woodland: 0\% other: 100\% (no trees, and the only bushes are crowberry and cloudberry).    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2001 CIA World Factbook] Reference

Svalbard: arable land: 0\% permanent crops: 0\% permanent pastures: 0\% forests and woodland: 0\% other: 100\% (no trees, and the only bushes are crowberry and cloudberry).    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2001 CIA World Factbook] Reference

There is a little berry (the crowberry) they eat here which I think rather nasty; roots of this were brought, and also some sweetbriar and wild geranium which has a very sweet smell.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Years in Tristan da Cunha] Reference

Mountain crowberry and lingonberry showed no responses to enhanced UV-B radiation levels after seven years of exposure whereas bog whortleberry and bilberry showed few responses (Table 7.6).    From Wordnik.com.  [Phenotypic responses of arctic species to changes in climate and ultraviolet-B radiation] Reference

The dwarf scrub communities are dominated by crowberry (Empetrum nigrum) and include other ericads (Vaccinium spp.), arctic willow (Salix arctica), and white mountain-avens (Dryas octopetala).    From Wordnik.com.  [Alaska Peninsula montane taiga] Reference

Frost and drought-resistant tufted grasses, herbs with dense root systems, miniature woody shrubs of sagebrush and wormwood mingled with white arctic bell heather, miniature rhododendron, and pink crowberry flowers dominating the dainty purple blooms of alpine heath.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mammoth Hunters]

Our Vegan had a green salad with an Inuit crowberry tea and lemon vinaigrette; I had one with my main course, and can report that the dressing was unlike any other vinaigrette I have ever tasted, which these days tend to be a little ho-hum: it was, in a word, scrumptious.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-01-01] Reference

Four dwarf shrubs were studied over the first three years of the experiment; one, the deciduous bilberry, showed increased annual stem growth (length) in the first year whereas two other evergreen dwarf shrubs (mountain crowberry – '' Empetrum hermaphroditum '' and lingonberry) showed reduced growth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Phenotypic responses of arctic species to changes in climate and ultraviolet-B radiation] Reference

Juniper berries, which were particularly good with meat if they didn't use too many, were prevalent; rose hips were more sporadic, but usually plentiful when found, and always sweeter after freezing; creeping crowberry, with a needlelike evergreen foliage, had small shiny black berries that often persisted through the winter, as did blue bearberries and red lingonberries.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Plains of Passage]

The cranberry, the crowberry, the cloudberry, etc., produce fruit any one of which might outweigh the herb itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Arctic Prairies : a Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou; Being the Account of a Voyage to the Region North of Aylemer Lake] Reference

There he paused a moment, to look over the island, treeless save for dwarf willows six inches high and a ground-dwelling form of crowberry.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries] Reference

Equally new to me, and much more beautiful, as well as more characteristic of the place, were the broom-crowberry and the greener kind of poverty grass.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Foot-path Way] Reference

The most luxuriant of the islands boasted only a patch of crowberry bushes or a few creeping junipers too much abashed to lift their heads a finger's length above the earth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Thrall of Leif the Lucky] Reference

The dwarf paper birch (trees of no one knows what age, matting the ground) was in blossom, with large, handsome catkins, while Cutler's willow was already in fruit, and the crowberry likewise.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Foot-path Way] Reference

Then come crowberry, and two species of huckleberry, one of them from about six inches to a foot high with delicious berries, the other a most lavishly prolific and contented-looking dwarf, few of the bushes being more than two inches high, counting to the topmost leaf, yet each bearing from ten to twenty or more large berries.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in Alaska] Reference

It extends from extensive coastal wetlands and meadows of tall grass, with alluvial riparian forests of Siberian and Komarov poplar Populus suaveolens and P. komarov, aspen P. tremuloides, alder Alnus kamschatica and willows Salix sachalinense and Chosenia macrolepis; through maritime taiga of Kamchatcan and Cayander larch Larix kamtschatica, and L. cayanderi, ayan and yeddo spruce Picea ajarensis, P. jezoensis and white birch Betula kamchatica; then peat wetland covered with crowberry Empertum nigrum, to very extensive higher level forests of stone birch Betula ermani which is the dominant tree of the peninsula, interspersed with meadows.    From Wordnik.com.  [Volcanoes of Kamchatka, Russian Federation] Reference

But here the snow was not yet dissolved, the ground was still bound by the frost, the herbage had scarce begun to spring, and the crowberry bushes were just beginning to blossom. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Pioneers in Canada] Reference

About the light-house I observed in the summer the pretty Polygala polygama, spreading ray-wise flat on the ground, white pasture thistles (Cirsium pumilum), and amid the shrubbery the Smilax glauca, which is commonly said not to grow so far north; near the edge of the banks about half a mile southward, the broom crowberry (Empetrum Conradii), for which Plymouth is the only locality in Massachusetts usually named, forms pretty green mounds four or five feet in diameter by one foot high, -- soft, springy beds for the wayfarer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cape Cod] Reference

100\% (no trees and the only bushes are crowberry and cloudberry).    From Wordnik.com.  [The 1994 CIA World Factbook] Reference