Calluna vulgaris (L.) Hull

Calluna vulgaris (L.) Hull

ERICACEAE

- Heath family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

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Name: Calluna vulgaris (L.) Hull

Nomencl. ref.: Brit. Fl., ed 2 (Hull) 114 (1808)
Rank: species

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Common names

U.S. name: Heather

English name: heather

English name: ling

Spanish name: biercol

Italian name: Calluna comune

Grown habit: Shrub
Duration: Perennial

Synonyms:

TAXONOMY

Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
Superdivision: Spermatophyta
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: Dilleniidae
Order: Ericales
Family: Ericaceae
Genus: Calluna
Species:

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Calluna vulgaris
Picture modified from Graebner, Paul - Taschenbuch zum Pflanzenbestimmen (1918) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.

Calluna vulgaris
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Calluna vulgaris
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Calluna vulgaris
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Calluna vulgaris
USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. Vol. 2: 694.

Calluna vulgaris
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Serle, altopiano di Cariadeghe, BS, Lombardia, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Calluna vulgaris
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Serle, altopiano di Cariadeghe, località Calamor. , BS, Lombardia, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Calluna vulgaris
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Pendici del Monte Matajur, nei pressi del Rifugio Pelizzo., UD, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Calluna vulgaris
Credit: Photo by Enrico Romani

Calluna vulgaris
Walter Hood Fitch - Illustrations of the British Flora (1924) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

Calluna vulgaris
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Merano, Giardini di Castel Trauttmansdorff, BZ, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Calluna vulgaris
Credit: Photo by Aldo De Bastiani

Calluna vulgaris
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Calluna vulgaris
Photo by Leo Michels. Usage: Public Domain

Calluna vulgaris
Hippolyte Coste - Flore descriptive et illustrée de la France, de la Corse et des contrées limitrophes, 1901-1906 - This image is in public domain because its copyright has expired.

Calluna vulgaris
Credit: Photo by Enrico Romani

Calluna vulgaris
Credit: Photo by L.R.

Calluna vulgaris
Credit: Photo by Aldo De Bastiani

Calluna vulgaris
Photo by Leo Michels. Usage: Public Domain

Calluna vulgaris

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- The New Plantfinder - Images and local names of vascular plants - Project Dryades / KeyToNature, coordinated by the Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste
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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (CT, MA, ME, MI, NH, NJ, NY, OH, RI, VT, WA, WI, WV), CAN (BC, NB, NF, NS, QC), FRA (SPM)

Distributional map for Calluna vulgaris (L.) Hull
Map for Calluna vulgaris (L.) Hull
(*) USDA, NRCS. 2009. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov, 28 August 2009). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA

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