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Photo: Patrick Slavin, Co.Galway

St. Dabeoc's Heath
Daboecia cantabrica
Fraoch na haon choise
Family: Ericaceae

Flowering time: May-October. Evergreen shrub. Native.

Clusters of bell-shaped purple-pink flowers, 4-lobed.
Pointed lanceolate-oblong leaves, dark green, inrolled margins.
Downy-white beneath, alternate. Stems woody, straggling.
Height: To 60cm.

Rocky moorland, heaths on thin acidic soils.
Found only in Galway and Mayo.

Member of the Lusitanian Flora.




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