ABSTRACT
The cloudberry is an Arctic and north-temperate species. In North America, it grows wild in cool and cold regions from Newfoundland to British Columbia and Alaska, south to the coast of eastern Maine, the mountains of western Maine and northern New Hampshire, with an isolated colony on Long Island, New York. Cloudberry inhabits moist, peaty, and turfy soils, including sphagnum bogs and hummocks, muskegs, mossy tundra, and black spruce bogs. Semicommercial to large-scale commercial harvesting occurs in Scandinavia, England, and Russia. In North America, large areas of cloudberry that could be commercially harvested are found in the bogs of northern Quebec, and Newfoundland and Labrador, but the amount of harvesting is much less than in Scandinavia. Cloudberries are considered best when freshly picked and may be served on pancakes or waffles, or with sugar, cream, whipped cream, or ice cream.
