The Probert Encyclopaedia of Nature

HEATHER

Heather is a low growing evergreen shrub that is common on sandy and acid soil. Heather has tiny, arrow-head shaped leaves pressed against and clasping the stem. Narrow spikes of flowers are borne which are often crowded to form large branched inflorescences. The flowers have four pinkish- purple, petal-like sepals and a deeply lobed corolla, similar to but shorter than the sepals. There are six to eight small bracts below each flower, the upper four resembling sepals.
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