Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Calluna vulgaris (L.) Hull, Brit. Fl. 114. 1808
Erica vulgaris 1,. Sp. PI. 352. 1753.
Calluna atlantica Seem. Jour. Bot. 4: 305. 1866.
A much-branched evergreen diffuse shrub less than 4 dm. tall, growing in large tufts; leaves 4-ranked, green or grayish, the blades ovate to lanceolate, 1-3 mm. long, finely pubescent, clasping; flowers spreading or nodding, the subtending bracts sepal-like, the inner ones scarious, ciliate; calyx becoming 5.5-6.5 mm. wide, the lobes oblong, oval, or ovate, obtuse; corolla included in the calyx, the lobes ovate to lanceolate, shorter than the calyx-lobes; stamens 2-2.5 mm. long; capsule 1.5-2 mm. broad.
Type locality: Europe.
Distribution: Coastal region, Newfoundland to New Jersey; presumably naturalized from
- bibliographic citation
- John Kunkel Small, NathanieI Lord Britton, Per Axel Rydberg, LeRoy Abrams. 1914. ERICALES, CLETHRACEAE, LENNOACEAE, PTROLACEAE, MONOTROPACEAE, ERICACEAE, UVA-URSI. North American flora. vol 29(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
