Flora of North America species comparison

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Calluna

bruyère commune, callunaie, heather, ling, Scotch heather
Habit Shrubs.
Stems

erect or ascending, (much-branched);

twigs hairy to glabrescent.
Leaves

persistent, opposite;

petiole absent;

blade coriaceous, margins spinulose-ciliate.
Inflorescences

terminal or axillary, racemes or panicles, 5–30-flowered;

perulae absent.
Flowers

bisexual, radially symmetric;

sepals 4, distinct;

petals 4, barely connate basally, corolla persistent, campanulate;

stamens 8, included;

anthers with awns, dehiscent by lateral slits;

ovary 5-locular, (ovoid);

style slightly exserted, straight;

stigma capitate.
Fruits

capsular, globose, dehiscence septifragal.
Seeds

ca. 5–10, ellipsoid, not winged, not tailed;

testa (firm), ± alveolate-reticulate.
x

= 8.

Calluna
Distribution
from USDA
Europe; w Asia [Introduced in North America]
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Species 1: introduced; Europe, w Asia.

Species 1

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 8, p. 491. Author: Gordon C. Tucker.
Parent taxa Ericaceae > subfam. Ericoideae
Subordinate taxa
C. vulgaris
Name authority Salisbury: Trans. Linn. Soc. London 6: 317. 1802 ,
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