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Ling / Heather Dense pinky-purple terminal flower spikes. Sepal-like bracts at flower bases. Corolla-like calyx of 4 pinkish sepals, corolla within, 4 triangular lobes. Oblong leaves stalkless, crowded, overlapping. Opposite, erect. Bushy, erect, many stemmed shrub. Height: 20-100 cm Dryer areas of acidic heaths, moors and bogs. Abundant. |
Photographs above: Ballingeary, Co.Cork. July 2007