Erica ciliaris
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Asterids
Order:	Ericales
Family:	Ericaceae
Genus:	Erica
Species:	E. ciliaris
Binomial name
Erica ciliaris L.

Erica ciliaris is a species of heather, known in the British Isles as Dorset heath.^[1] It grows to 60 centimetres (24 in), and has leaves 2–4 millimetres (0.08–0.16 in) long, with long, glandular hairs.^[1] The flowers are 8–12 mm (0.31–0.47 in) long, bright pink, and arranged in long racemes.^[1]

In the British Isles, it is only found natively in Dorset, Devon and Cornwall, where it lives in bogs and wet heaths.^[2] It has also been introduced to Hampshire and County Galway.^[1] E. ciliaris was voted the county flower of Dorset in 2002 following a poll by the wild flora conservation charity Plantlife.^[2]

References[link]

1. ^ ^{a b c d} Clive A. Stace (2010). "Erica L. – heaths". New Flora of the British Isles (3rd ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 528–530. ISBN 978-0-521-70772-5. 
2. ^ ^{a b} "Dorset heath (Erica ciliaris)". County Flowers. Plantlife. http://www.plantlife.org.uk/wild_plants/plant_species/dorset_heath/. Retrieved July 28, 2011. 

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