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Cross-leaved Heath Waxy pink flowers in terminal heads. Woolly hairs lower side sepals. Downy ovary. Whorls of 4 narrow grey-green evergreen leaves with rolled back margins. Erect twiggy branches, straggly growth habit. Height: 20-60cm Grows on acidic moors, bogs, heaths. Similar: Mackay's Heath, E. mackayana. Only on blanket bog in Donegal and Connemara. Part of Lusitanian flora. |
Photographs above: Ballingeary, Co.Cork. July 2006