| Plants : Ericaceae | Ferns and Flowering Plants |
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| Erica terminalis |
Description: Introduced into the garden of The Umbra house whence it escaped onto the sand dunes opposite around about 1908. Robert Lloyd Praeger noted it in 1937 as increasing, and it is now very plentiful over a considerable area of The Umbra dune system in dune slacks.
A native of Corsica and other places in the western Mediterranean.
A fairly tall bushy plant reaching about 3 feet in height, with pink flowers in clusters at the ends of branches, it flowers from June to September.
All names: Erica terminalis Salisb.
Distribution Map from NBN: Erica terminalis at National Biodiversity Network mapping facility, data for UK.
iNaturalist: Erica terminalis at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.
| Hackney, P., 2026. Erica terminalis. Salisb.. [In] Flora of Northern Ireland. https://habitas.org/flora/species.php?item=3910. Accessed on 2026-11-02. |