Erica imbricata L.

Erect shrub up to 90 cm or so (3 ft). Branches somewhat twiggy, variously pubescent. Leaves 3-nate, 3-5 mm long, upright to spreading, imbricate, linear, sulcate, glabrous, usually tufted on short branchlets. Flowers 3-nate or clustered, terminal, calycine, copious in pseudoracemes along the branches; peduncles 3 mm long, puberulous, viscid; bracts approximate, rarely median, sepal-like. Sepals about 2-5 mm long, more or less ovate, keel-tipped, subscarious, rigid, sometimes ciliate, glabrous, white, brown, or red. Corolla 2-3.5 mm long, variable in shape from cyathiform, ovoid, urceolate to globose-urceolate, viscid, glabrous, white, brownish red, pink or red; lobes 1/2 as long as the tube, upright to spreading, more or less acute. Anthers exserted, about
 long, from terminal to nearly lateral, linear, oblong, lanceolate, semiovate or narrow-ovate, bipartite, glabrous, muticous, dark or light brown; pore 1/2-2/3 the length of the cell. Ovary oblong-cuneate, glabrous; style exserted; stigma clavate-capitate.