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Ericameria ericoides, known by the common names California goldenbush, mock heather, and California heathgoldenrod, is a species of flowering shrubs in the family Asteraceae. It is endemic to California , where it grows in the sand dunes and coastal hills between the northern San Francisco Bay Area and the Los Angeles area.
The Ericaceae (/ ˌ ɛr ɪ ˈ k eɪ s i. aɪ,-iː /) are a family of flowering plants, commonly known as the heath or heather family, found most commonly in acidic and infertile growing conditions. The family is large, with about 4,250 known species spread across 124 genera, [ 2 ] making it the 14th most species-rich family of flowering plants ...
Calluna vulgaris, common heather, ling, or simply heather, [1] is the sole species in the genus Calluna in the flowering plant family Ericaceae.It is a low-growing evergreen shrub growing to 20 to 50 centimetres (8 to 20 in) tall, or rarely to 1 metre (40 in) and taller, [2] and is found widely in Europe and Asia Minor on acidic soils in open sunny situations and in moderate shade.
The heather acts as a mountain canopy and collects stone-free soil either from the wind or that has been washed in. This stimulates vegetative growth and may take up to one hundred years to reach full mature status. Pink mountain heather is easily damaged by natural causes such as a dry winter.
Most of the species of Erica are small shrubs from 20–150 centimetres (8–59 inches) high, though some are taller; the tallest are E. arborea (tree heath) and E. scoparia (besom heath), both of which can reach up to 7 metres (23 feet) tall. All are evergreen, with minute, needle-like leaves2–15 millimetres (1 ⁄ 8 – 5 ⁄ 8 in) long.
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It is a low, spreading shrub growing to 15–60 centimetres (6– 23 + 1 ⁄ 2 inches) tall, with fine needle-like leaves 4–8 millimetres (1 ⁄ 8 – 3 ⁄ 8 in) long arranged in whorls of three. The flowers are bell-shaped, purple (rarely white), 4–7 mm ( 1 ⁄ 8 – 1 ⁄ 4 in) long, produced in mid- to late summer.
Erica vagans, the Cornish heath or wandering heath, is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae, native to Ireland, Cornwall, western France and Spain. [1] It is a vigorous, spreading, evergreen heather reaching 75 cm (30 in) tall and wide, with pink flowers borne in racemes 14 cm (6 in) long in summer and autumn.