Common name:
Ling heather
Family:
Scientific name:
Calluna vulgaris
Main flower color:
Range:
All areas of the UK
Height:
Up to 60 cm
Habitat:
Moorland, heaths, bogs, open coniferous woodland
Flowers:
Pink, less often white, in elongated clusters at the top of the stem. Flowers are formed of a short, reddish corolla and a longer (up to 5 mm), bell-shaped calyx, deeply divided into four petal-like lobes
Leaves:
Evergreen, linear, triangular in cross-section, in rows of four all along the stem; only 2 mm long, appressed against the stem
Season:
August to September
Rarity:
★★★★★
