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Ericaceae
Curlew-berry
Empetrum nigrum
Also known as Crowberry, Empetrum nigrum, Chamaetaxus nigra, Black crowberry
Flowering Plants · Native Plants · Trees & Shrubs · Berry · Evergreen · Shrub · Alpine · Acidic-Soil · Groundcover · Cold-Hardy · Rock-Garden · Slow-Growing
Curlew-berry is a hardy evergreen shrub that produces small dark berries and thrives in acidic, well-draining soil. This slow-growing plant prefers cool conditions and benefits from protection from hot afternoon sun. Excellent for rock gardens or as groundcover in alpine settings.
Growing conditions
The details behind the basics
- Daily light
- 6 hours
- Watering
- Water moderately, allowing soil to dry slightly between waterings · Every 7-10 days
- Maintenance
- Moderate
- Soil
- sandy loam
- Soil pH
- 4.3–7.8
- Temperature
- -30°F to 95°F
- Cycle
- Perennial
- Propagation
- Seed
Hardiness
USDA 4a-10b
Form & growth
Mature size and habit
- Mature height
- 2 ft – 5 ft
- Spread
- 3 ft
- Spacing
- 18 in apart
- Growth rate
- Slow
- Root depth
- Shallow
- Flowers
- Yes
- Foliage
- Coarse
Ecology & origin
Where it belongs and what it brings
- Native to
- Alaska, Albania, Alberta, Aleutian Is., Altay, Amur, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, British Columbia, Bulgaria, Buryatiya, California, Central European Rus, China North-Central, Chita, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East European Russia
- Attracts
- Birds
Sources: trefle, usda
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