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Erica vagans
L.
Family:
Ericaceae
Cornish Heath
FNA
Gleason & Cronquist
Resources
Gordon C. Tucker in Flora of North America (vol. 8)
Plants
decumbent or ascending, 30-60 cm; twigs of current season green, glabrous, ridged from decurrent leaf bases, older twigs light brown, glabrous, rough from raised leaf scars.
Leaves
in whorls of 4-5; petiole 0.5-1 mm; blade linear-lanceolate, compressed-triangular in cross section, 4.5-6 × 1 mm, margins revolute, ciliate, surfaces glabrous, grooved abaxially.
Inflorescences
terminal or lateral racemes, ovoid to oblong, 5-10 cm.
Pedicels
5-8 mm, glabrous; (bracteoles 2, in basal third, 0.4-0.6 mm, scarious).
Flowers:
calyx lobes elliptic, 1 × 0.5 mm, margins ciliate, apex obtuse, glabrous; corolla pink or white, broadly campanulate, 2.5-3.5 mm, lobes deltate, 0.5 mm, apex obtuse; stamens 10; filaments 1.5-2 mm; anthers not awned, 0.5-0.8 mm; ovary glabrous; style 3.5-4.5 mm; stigma exserted, filiform, (glabrous).
Capsules
1-2 mm, hairy.
Seeds
ellipsoid, 0.6 × 0.5 mm, finely pitted.
2
n
= 24.
Flowering late spring-summer. Sandy, acidic, upland sites in old pastures and roadsides; 0-50 m; introduced; Mass., Pa.; w Europe.
The Massachusetts records of
Erica vagans
are dated 1915 to 1921, from Nantucket Island.
Vascular plants of NE US and adjacent Canada
Shrub to 5 dm; lvs narrowly linear, glabrous; sep glabrous, broadly ovate; cor campanulate, 3-4 mm; anthers exsert, without appendages; 2n=24. Nantucket Isl., Mass. Summer.
Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.
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