Details for: PEMP 15, Empetrum nigrum L., PEMP 15


Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Empetrum nigrum L.
Top Name:
PEMP 15
Origin:
Collected – Alaska, United States
Maintained:
Historic Record
Received by NPGS:
06 Dec 2011
Improvement Status:
Wild material
Reproductive Uniformity:

Population
Form Received:
Seed
Life Form:
Perennial
Life Cycle:
Perennial
Availability
This is historical information about this accession. It no longer exists and can not be requested.
 
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Core Passport Data
Taxonomy:
Empetrum nigrum L.
Top Name:
PEMP 15
Origin:
Collected – Alaska, United States
Maintained:
Historic Record
Received by NPGS:
06 Dec 2011
Improvement Status:
Wild material
Reproductive Uniformity:

Population
Form Received:
Seed
Life Form:
Perennial
Life Cycle:
Perennial
Source History
Collected
NEAR 28 July 2011.
Alaska, United States
Locality: Collected from a 30-50 m wide clearing between a taiga Picea/Betula/Salix forest and the fence of an Alaska Department of Transportation facility on the northwest side of the Steese Highway ca 88 km northeast of Fairbanks, Alaska, USA.
Coordinates: 65.3641, -146.0890 (Map it)
Elevation: 678m.
Georeference protocol: Lat/lon determined by GPS
Habitat: Wild Habitat
Environment description: Taiga forest, primarily Picea and Betula with some Salix. Empetrum nigrum was relatively abundant and relataively productive on the site with fruit size average for the region. Vaccinium uliginosum was abundant and productive on site. Vaccinium vitis-idaea was relatively abundant and relatively productive, but the fruit was ca one month from ripening.
Comment: Collected from the wild near Fairbanks, Alaska Collected E. nigrum from a 50 m radius of the site.
Collector(s):
Accession Names and Identifiers
PEMP 15
Type: Site identifier
Barney, Dan USDA, ARS

DB 0711
Type: Exploration identifier
Group: PEO-EXPLORATIONS
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Narrative
Empetrum nigrum L.
Genus:
Empetrum
Family:
Ericaceae
Subfamily:
Ericoideae
Tribe:
Empetreae
Nomen number:

15127
Place of publication:

Sp. pl. 2:1022. 1753
Verified:
12/28/1995 by ARS Systematic Botanists.
Other conspecific taxa
Empetrum nigrum L. var. asiaticum Nakai (0 active accession[s])
Empetrum nigrum L. var. japonicum K. Koch (0 active accession[s])
Empetrum nigrum L. var. nigrum (0 active accession[s])
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Autonym(s)
Empetrum nigrum L. subsp. nigrum

Common names
LanguageNameAlternate namenoteseqCitation
Englishblack crowberry  1Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. A concise dictionary of plants cultivated in the United States and Canada
Englishcrakeberry  1Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening
Englishcurlew-berry  1Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening
Swedishkråkbär  2Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)
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Description:
Collected from the wild.