Shrubland, scrubland, scrub, brush, or bush is a plant community characterized by vegetation dominated by shrubs, often also including grasses, herbs, and geophytes. Shrubland may either occur natural
Low shrubland in Hawaii
Scrub vegetation with cactus in Webb County in south Texas
Mediterranean shrubland in Sardinia, Italy
Shrubland in Prince Edward County, Ontario.
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
Shrubland
…For shrubs less than 2 metres (6.6 ft) high, the following structural forms are categorized: dense foliage cover (70–100%) — closed-heath or closed low shrubland—(North America) mid-dense foliage cover (30–70%) — open-heath or mid-dense low shrubland—(North America…
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