"Crowberry" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... 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) ...
— The 1997 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... sandwort showed only here and there a stray flower, and the geum was only in bud. 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. The willow, like the birch, has learned that the only way to live in such a place is to lie flat upon the ground and let the wind blow over you. The other flowers noted at the summit were one of the blueberries (Vaccinium uliginosum), ...
— The Foot-path Way • Bradford Torrey |
