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Calluna vulgaris
About
Calluna vulgaris, common heather, ling, or simply heather, 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 tall, or rarely to 1 metre (40 in) and taller, and is found widely in Europe and Asia Minor on acidic soils in open sunny situations and in moderate shade.
- Family
- Ericaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Calluna vulgaris
- Slug
- calluna-vulgaris
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Ericaceae
- Genus
- Calluna
- Species
- vulgaris
- Wikidata QID
- Q26615
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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