(1) It comprised mostly subalpine ground with tallish heather, blaeberry, and crowberry , with some patches of short heath.(2) A faint track through the crowberry scrub led to a rightwards sloping ramp of black slabs which seemed to give way to a series of zig-zags amongst some large blocks.(3) Wet meadows have abundant grasses, sedges, and rushes, while low-growing shrubs include black crowberry , mountain cranberry, shrubby cinquefoil, and three dwarf willows.(4) Rarest and most unexpected of those are broom crowberry , a wiry shrub with crowded, quarter-inch-long leaves and black berries, and curly grass, a fern that has small curly leaves that look like immature grass.(5) American Indians of the north-west and Alaska used to gather crowberries for winter food, preserving them by drying or, in Alaska, by placing them with other berries in seal oil.(6) The blaeberries, crowberries , elderberries and stinging nettles, along with the more than 30 types of fungi which he finds in the forest, find their way onto his menu.
