Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Epacris impressa
Common name
Common heath
Family
Ericaceae
Where found
Forest, woodland, heath, shrubland, rocky outcrops, and swampy areas. South of Goulburn. Coast, ranges, and tablelands. Occasionally elsewhere.
Notes
Shrub to 2 m high. Stems with small, cup-shaped, leaf scars. Branchlets hairy. Leaves scattered or overlapping, 0.4–2.5 cm long, 0.8–8.5 mm wide, thin, more or less flat, tips pointed, margins entire or rough; surfaces hairy with fine hairs. Flowers white, pink or red, tubular, the tube narrow to narrowly bell-shaped, 4–20 mm long, with 5 small indentations near the base, and 5 spreading lobes each 1–3.8 mm long. No hairs on the inside of the flowers. Flowers extending down from the tips of the upper branches, often hanging down and on one side of the branches. Flowers all year.
Family was Epacridaceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Epacris~impressa (accessed 8 January, 2021)
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