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Cassiope mertensiana

white heather

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Botanical details
Family
Ericaceae
Native to the UK
No
Potentially harmful
Genus

Cassiope

Genus description

Cassiope are small, heath-like evergreen shrubs with tiny, dark green leaves in four ranks, and solitary, nodding, bell or urn-shaped white flowers from the upper leaf axils in late spring and early summer

Name status

Correct

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