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Erica is a genus of over 700 species of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae; the English names, both shared with some other closely related plants, are heath or heather. For other uses, see Genus (disambiguation). ... Classes Magnoliopsida - Dicots Liliopsida - Monocots The flowering plants or angiosperms are the most widespread group of land plants. ... Genera See text The plant Family Ericaceae (Heath Family) or ericaceous plants are mostly lime-hating or calcifuge plants that thrive in acid soils. ... Heath comes from Old English hÃ¦Ã° tract of wasteland, from Proto-Germanic *khaiÃ¾ijo (cognate with Old Irish ciad; see also heather, heathen) refers to a wild meadow or open, unploughed country, see Heath (habitat). ... Heather may be: In botany, the plant Calluna vulgaris, or, more loosely, various species of the closely related genera Erica and Cassiope, low evergreen shrubs (also called heaths). The term is also used to describe land which is vegetated with these plants; In apparel or textiles, interwoven yarns with a...

Most of the species are small shrubs from 0.2-1.5 m high, though some are taller; the tallest are E. arborea (Tree Heath) and E. scoparia (Besom Heath), both of which can reach up to 6-7 m tall. All are evergreen, with minute needle-like leaves 2-15 mm long. Flowers are sometimes axillary, and sometimes in terminal umbels or spikes. They are usually outward or downward facing. Flowers are borne in mass, and the plants are grown as landscape or garden plants for their floral effect. A broom shrub in flower A shrub or bush is a horticultural rather than strictly botanical category of woody plant, distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, usually less than 6 m tall. ... Binomial nomenclature Erica arborea Ref: ITIS 505949 The Tree Heath is a shrub or small evergreen tree with a height of 1-4 (-7) m. ... â€¹ The template below (Expand) is being considered for deletion. ... Look up foliage in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ...

The great majority of the species are endemic in South Africa, and are often called the Cape Heaths. The remaining 70 or so species are native to other parts of Africa, the Mediterranean region, and Europe. In biology and ecology endemic means exclusively native to a place or biota, in contrast to cosmopolitan or introduced. ... A world map showing the continent of Africa Africa is the worlds second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. ... The Mediterranean Sea is an intercontinental sea positioned between Europe to the north, Africa to the south and Asia to the east, covering an approximate area of 2. ... For other uses, see Europe (disambiguation). ...

The closely related genus Calluna is sometimes confused with the true Erica species; it differs in even smaller scale leaves less than 2-3 mm long, and the flower corolla being more divided into separate petals. Binomial name (L.) Hull â€œHeatherâ€ redirects here. ...

Plants of this genus are eaten by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Emperor Moth, Garden tiger moth, True Lover's Knot, Wormwood Pug and the Coleophora case-bearers C. juncicolella and C. pyrrhulipennella. A larval insect A larva (Latin; plural larvae) is a juvenile form of animal with indirect development, undergoing metamorphosis (for example, insects or amphibians). ... The order Lepidoptera is the second most speciose order in the class Insecta and includes the butterflies, moths and skippers. ... Binomial name Pavonia pavonia Linnaeus, 1758 The Emperor Moth (Pavonia pavonia) is a moth of the family Saturniidae. ... Binomial name Arctia caja Linnaeus, 1758 The garden tiger moth (Arctia caja) is a moth of the Arctiidae family. ... Binomial name Lycophotia porphyrea Denis & SchiffermÃ¼ller, 1775 The True Lovers Knot (Lycophotia porphyrea) is a moth of the family Noctuidae. ... Binomial name Eupithecia absinthiata Clerck, 1759 The Wormwood Pug (Eupithecia absinthiata) is a moth of the family Geometridae. ... Coleophora is a very large genus of moths of the family Coleophoridae with over 750 described species. ...

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Category: Ericaceae Heaths are anthropogenic habitats found primarily in northern and western Europe, where they have been created by thousands of years of human clearance of natural forest vegetation by grazing and burning on mainly infertile acidic soils. ... Erica arborea copied across from de. ... Binomial nomenclature Erica arborea Ref: ITIS 505949 The Tree Heath is a shrub or small evergreen tree with a height of 1-4 (-7) m. ... Erica cinerea copied across from de. ... Binomial name Erica cinerea L. Erica cinerea (Bell Heather) is a species of heather, native to western and central Europe. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (800x1200, 677 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Erica Erica plukenetii Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used... Binomial name Erica plukenetii L. Species from South Africa Categories: | ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 385 Ã— 600 pixelsFull resolution (1214 Ã— 1891 pixel, file size: 393 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links Commons-logo. ...

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