True heath occurs as genus of over 700 mintage of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae; the English list, each shared using another closely related plants, come heath or heather. Virtually all of the coinage come little shrubs from 0.Two-One.Quint m high, though occasionally come taller; a tallest come E. arborea (Tree Heath) and E. scoparia (Besom Heath), each of which potty email as much as 6-7 m tall. Everthing come evergreen, with microscopic needle-prefer leaves 2-15 mm hanker. Flowers come every now & agawithin axillary, and another time in terminal umbels or even spikes. It is commonly outward-bound or even downwardly facing. Flowers come borne inside mass, & a plants come grown when landscape or garden plants for their floral burden.

A awesome majority of the metal money come endemic in South Africa, and come typically known as a Cape Heaths. A odd Lxx or even and so mintage come indigen to more area of Africa, the Mediterranean region, and Europe.

A closely related genus Calluna is sometimes confused by using a confessedly True heath coinage; it differs within possibly little scale less than Two-Three millimeter hanker, & a flower corolla existence extra divided into separate flower petal.

Plants of this genus come eaten per larvae of some Lepidoptera species including True Lover's Knot.

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