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
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
Moorland
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Moorland or moor is a type of habitat found in upland areas in temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands and the biomes of montane grasslands and shrublands, characterised by low-growing vegetati
Heath
…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 with—especially in Great Britain—a cooler and damper climate. Heaths are widespread worldwide but are rapidly…
Extensive moorland in the Desert of Wales
Heather moorland on the North York Moors mainly consisting of Calluna vulgaris
Moorland of Kilimanjaro
Dartmoor in winter covered in snow. Several tors top the sparsely vegetated hills.