Erica spiculifolia

Erica spiculifolia, commonly known as spike heath or Balkan heath, is a species of plant in the Erica genus, native to southeastern Europe and northern Asia Minor. It is a dwarf evergreen shrub and heath-like plant to 10 in high. Leaves are dark green. The flowers are rose-pink and bell-shaped, appearing in terminal clusters in early summer. It was first identified in 1802.^[2]

Clade:Tracheophytes

Clade:Angiosperms

Clade:Eudicots

Clade:Asterids

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Erica spiculifolia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Ericales
Family:	Ericaceae
Genus:	Erica
Species:	E. spiculifolia
Binomial name
Erica spiculifolia Salisb.
Synonyms[1]
Bruckenthalia spiculifolia (Salisb.) Rchb. Bruckenthalia spiculifolia f. albiflora D.C.McClint. Erica bruckenthalii (Baumg.) Spreng. Erica olympiaca Sibth. ex Salisb. Erica spiculifolia f. albiflora (D.C.McClint.) E.C.Nelson & D.C.McClint. Erica transsylvanica Willd. ex Klotzsch Menziesia bruckenthalii Baumg.

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It inhabits sub-alpine areas with acid soils up to 2,800 meters elevation in the mountains of southeastern Europe (Romania, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Albania, and Greece) and northern Turkey.^[3]