Heather-Calluna Vulgaris 1C

In optimum growing conditions it will typically form thick mats of foliage. Tiny four-ranked scale-like leaves in overlapping pairs appear on slender stems rising on average to 24” tall. Leaves are typically gray to green in spring and summer but acquire bronze to purple tones in fall and winter. Rose pink to purplish pink flowers in terminal one-sided spike-like racemes appear in mid to late summer.