Erica (plant)
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Erica is a genus of roughly 857 species of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae. The English common names heath and heather are shared by some closely related genera of similar appearance. The gen
Erica herbacea 0
Erica arborea
Erica cinerea
Erica junonia
Heath
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A heath is a shrubland habitat found mainly on free-draining infertile, acidic soils and is characterised by open, low-growing woody vegetation. Moorland is generally related to high-ground heaths wit
Erica (plant)
…the compost used in their cultivation. Soils range from dry, sandy soils to extremely wet ones such as bog. They often dominate dwarf-shrub habitats (heathland and moorland), or the ground vegetation of open acidic woodland. Plants of this genus are eaten mainly by the larvae of many Lepidoptera species…
Flowering heath on Amrum, Germany
Lüneburg Heath, an anthropogenic heath in Lower Saxony, northern Germany
Fynbos heathland, South Africa
Heathland at Woodbury Common, Devon (England), featuring purple flowers of Calluna vulgaris and yellow flowers of Ulex gallii