The Flora of Derbyshire - Checklist, Maps and Sample Accounts

THIS IS A DRAFT

The species account below is an early version, drafted around 2003. It has been provided here to aid understanding, but please be aware it may not fully tally with the up-to-date map and statistics shown below.

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Dates
First year: 1677
Latest year: 2007

County Status
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Family
Empetraceae

Total records held
947

Grid Square Count

1987-2007	Ever
Monads: 369	379
Tetrads: 138	144
Hectads: 16	18

Conservation Status
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Account last edited
Dec 12 2003

Explanation of terms

Species Details

Crowberry is an evergreen undershrub of moors, mountainsides and blanket bogs, though in the last habitat it only grows in the drier areas (Tallis 1997). It occurs throughout the Dark and South West Peak with only one record from outside these areas, Cobnar Wood (SK3575) from 1973. Our plant is subspecies Xxnigrum and it has the local name of Heath (Grigson 1975). Recently there has been some dieback of the plant in the Dark Peak, the reason for this is as yet unknown.