Irish wildflowers
Photographs: Ballingeary, Co. Cork |
Ling / Heather Calluna vulgaris Fraoch mór Family: Ericaceae Flowering time: July-September. Evergreen shrub. Native. Flowers in dense pinky-purple terminal spikes with sepal-like bracts at the flower bases. Corolla-like calyx of 4 pinkish sepals, corolla within, 4 triangular lobes. Erect, oblong leaves are stalkless, crowded, overlapping and pposite. A bushy, erect, many stemmed shrub. Height: 20-100 cm Found throughout Ireland and can be very abundant on dryer areas of acidic heaths, moors and bogs. |
Ling, Calluna vulgaris, Fraoch mór
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