erica

1. Any plant of the genus Erica (synset 112247937)
   is a type of: heath - a low evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae; has small bell-shaped pink or purple flowers
   subtypes:

   • briar, brier, erica arborea, tree heath - evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes
   • erica carnea, spring heath, winter heath - dwarf European shrub with very early blooming bell-shaped red flowers
   • bell heather, erica cinerea, fine-leaved heath, heather bell - common low European shrub with purple-red flowers
   • bell heather, cross-leaved heath, erica tetralix - dwarf European shrub with rose-colored flowers
   • cornish heath, erica vagans - bushy shrub having pink to white flowers; common on the moors of Cornwall and in southwestern Europe; cultivated elsewhere
   • erica lusitanica, portuguese heath, spanish heath - erect dense shrub native to western Iberian peninsula having profuse white or pink flowers; naturalized in southwestern England
   • erica perspicua, prince of wales heath, prince-of-wales'-heath - South African shrub grown for its profusion of white flowers
   belongs to: genus erica - large genus of low much-branched woody evergreens ranging from prostrate subshrubs to trees: true heaths
   same as: true heath

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