Botanical name

Erica viscaria subsp. macrosepala

Family

Ericaceae

Common Name

Sticky Heath, Klokkiesheide

Synonym (old name)

Erica onosmiflora
Erica viscaria  subsp. macrosepala
Erica viscaria  subsp. macrosepala
Erica viscaria  subsp. macrosepala
Erica viscaria  subsp. macrosepala
Erica viscaria  subsp. macrosepala
Erica viscaria  subsp. macrosepala

Description

Erect shrublet up to 90cm with open branches. Leaves are crowded, overlapping and pointed; flowers are crowded towards the ends of branches; long, tubular corollas, flaring at the mouth, sticky; greenish yellow in Fernkloof but colour variable elsewhere.

Latin: viscous = viscid, sticky; referring to the sticky flowers of this species.

Habitat

Mountain and lower slopes

Flower Date

January to March