Dorset Heath

Erica ciliaris

''Erica ciliaris'' is a species of heather, known in the British Isles as Dorset heath. It grows to 60 centimetres, and has leaves 2–4 millimetres long, with long, glandular hairs. The flowers are 8–12 mm long, bright pink, and arranged in long racemes.
Dorset heath (Erica ciliaris) Cap Fréhel, Bretagne, France. Aug 25, 2021 Erica  ciliaris,Erica ciliarus,France,Geotagged,Summer

Distribution

''Erica ciliaris'' has a Lusitanian distribution, stretching from Morocco in the south, along the Atlantic coasts of Portugal, Spain and France to south-western parts of the British Isles in the north. In the British Isles, it is only found natively in Dorset, Devon and Cornwall, where it lives in bogs and wet heaths. It has also been introduced to Hampshire and County Galway. ''E. ciliaris'' was voted the county flower of Dorset in 2002 following a poll by the wild flora conservation charity Plantlife.

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Taxonomy
KingdomPlantae
DivisionAngiosperms
ClassEudicots
OrderEricales
FamilyEricaceae
GenusErica
SpeciesE. ciliaris
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France