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Erica umbellata
Dwarf Spanish Heath is a small evergreen shrub from the western Iberian Peninsula and northwest Morocco, growing 10 to 50 cm tall with clusters of pink or purple bell-shaped flowers. It needs full sun and well-drained, acidic-to-neutral siliceous soil, and it tolerates drought once established.
Erica umbellata is a species of plant in the heather family (Ericaceae) native to the western Iberian Peninsula and northwestern Maghreb.
Erica umbellata is native to the western Iberian Peninsula (Portugal and western Spain) and northwest Africa in Morocco. Inhabiting bare terrain, dwarf or cleared heaths, scrublands, cleared forests, pine forests and subcoastal sand, always on siliceous soils, from sea-level to 1,500 m (4,900 ft) altitude. Some populations in the Algarve have very large flowers (up to 7 mm (0.28 in)) and were denominated var. major. Galician plants with graceful stems and small flowers were described as var. filiformis. Rarely some plants appear with rudimentary or aborted stamens (var. Anandra). E. umbellata can grow well on limey soils.
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 umbellata 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.
