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Erica ciliaris
Also called Ciliate Heath
Dorset heath is a low, bushy heathland shrub with bright pink bell-shaped flowers in long clusters, native to wet heaths and bogs from Morocco to south-west Britain. It needs acidic, moist but well-drained conditions and full sun to thrive.
Erica ciliaris, the dorset heath, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Erica.
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, Cornwall and one location in County Galway, where it lives in bogs and wet heaths. It has also been introduced to Hampshire.
Erica abbottii · Honeysuckle heath · Summer heath · Erica albens · Erica alfredii · Cold Heath · Foxtail Erica · Erica amicorum · Erica amoena · Erica ampullacea · Erica andevalensis · Eyelash Heath
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Erica ciliaris by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
