Taxon: Erica lusitanica Rudolphi

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Common names:

• Portuguese heath   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• Spanish heath   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• spear heath   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• urze   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Krussmann; Dict Gard; Invasive Pl Spec)
  
• Weed   (fide Invasive Pl Spec)
  

Distributional range:

• EUROPE
  Southwestern Europe: France [s.w.]; Portugal [s.]; Spain

• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Ireland; United Kingdom
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  United States [w.]

• also cultivated

References:

• Encke, F. et al. 1993. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 14. Auflage.
• Greuter, W. et al., eds. 1984–. Med-Checklist.
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Hnatiuk, R. J. 1990. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• Krüssmann, G. 1984. Manual of cultivated broad-leaved trees and shrubs (English translation of Handbuch der Laubgehölze. 1976).
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
• Walters, S. M. et al., eds. 1986–. European garden flora.
• Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Erica lusitanica.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Erica lusitanica.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Erica lusitanica.

Check other web resources for Erica lusitanica Rudolphi:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• ICRA: International Cultivar Registration Authority (on-line resource). for Erica lusitanica cultivars
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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