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Erica lusitanica (Spanish heath)

Synonyms: Erica arborea lusitanica; Erica codonoides

Wikipedia Abstract

Erica lusitanica is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae, known by the common names Portuguese heath and Spanish heath. It is named for Lusitania, a historical region of western Europe, now southwestern France, Spain and Portugal, which provides its native habitat.
View Wikipedia Record: Erica lusitanica

Infraspecies

Erica lusitanica cantabrica
Erica lusitanica lusitanica

Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  Medium
Leaf Type [2]  Evergreen
Lifespan [3]  Perennial
Structure [2]  Shrub

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Dorset Heaths (Purbeck and Wareham) and Studland Dunes 5491 England, United Kingdom
Reserva de la Biosfera de Urdaibai Biosphere Reserve V 1777 Spain  

Predators

Cucullococcus arrabidensis[4]
Strepsicrates ejectana[5]
Strophingia cinereae[6]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
♦ 2Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 3USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 4Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 5New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Plant-SyNZ™ database
♦ 6Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0