Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

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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)