Compilation
Erica alopecurus

1 ft. or more high; branches virgate, imbricate throughout their whole length with small and short or minute erect branchlets, pubescent and also setose-hirsute; leaves 3-nate, incurved-ascending, linear, obtuse, sulcate, midrib visible beneath, coarsely pubescent or hirsute, 2–3 lin. long; flowers 3-nate, crowded on very short branchlets towards the ends of the branches into a cylindrical false spike from 1–3 in. long, 3–5 lin. wide; pedicels under 1/2 lin. long; bracts remote, small or sometimes larger and foliaceous; sepals linear-subulate, pubescent or setose, setose-tipped, ciliate, about 1 lin. long; corolla broad-ovoid or suburceolate-ovoid, mouth much contracted, pubescent, about 1 1/2 lin. long, or rarely longer; limb very short; segments spreading; filaments capillary; anthers included, broad ovate, pale brown, less than 1/5 lin. long, aristate; awns rough, nearly as long as the cell; style included, curved; stigma capitate; ovary villous. null