The video above was created by quite adept shows where 19 Different Types of Berries Native to North America Grow.
It’s part of a much longer video you can watch below:
From the original reddit post:
This gif is a simplified version of a much longer, slightly absurd berry video I made with the same data.
This is not where all berries in North America can be found.
It is just the native range of native plant species that produce fruity things that we call berries.
Some of these berries aren’t technically berries.
It also excludes varieties that are extinct in the wild, and species of plant that are not berry common or not researched enough to have readily available geospatial data.
The nineteen berries in this gif cover more than 115 species and subspecies of berry-producing plants in North America. From my research there are about 300 species of “berries” that are native to North America and are not extinct in the wild.
DATA
These are original distribution maps that combine data for multiple species and/or subspecies into individual maps for each “type” of berry.
They were created in Affinity Designer.
The two main sources used for these distribution maps are (1) Elbert L. Little Jr.’s many volumes of “Atlas of United States Trees” for the U.S. Department of Agriculture and (2) the North American Plant Atlas (NAPA) from Biota of North America Project (BONAP) which can be found at bonap.net – example.
The Little maps are from the 70s, the BONAP maps are accurate as of 2014.
These maps are accurate for the contiguous United States to at least the county level, Canada/Mexico/Alaska to at least the province/state level, and all other countries to at least the country level.
Not all of the berries in this gif are true berries, botanically speaking.
Further data source information can be found at the end of the full video. I superimposed the source maps on top of each other and onto a blank map and traced county by county to make each map, then I layered all nineteen maps on top of each other with transparency to show the rough diversity/density of berry species.
And finally how about this map by reddit user souppoder titled A Very Berry Map: North American Places Named After Different Types of Berries:
Which one is your favourite?
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