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English
name:
cross-leaved heath
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Own
language name: Bruyère
quaternée
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Description:
perennial subshrub, with numerous tortuous, ascending branched stems,
wich root at the base, with small pink bell-shaped drooping flowers
borne in compact clusters at the end of its shoots, leaves in
whorls of 4. The leaves are greyish and the edges are rolled under,
nearly meeting below and are downy above.
The small surface area effectively regulates water loss by
transpiration.
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Ecologie : damp moors, peat soils in the process of drying.t. |
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Habitat:
peat
soils, damp heathland, more often amongs sphaignes
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Report about the reasons of the risk: destruction of the biotope |
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Categoria IUCN: 3, VU, vulnérable.
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Possible solutions: preservation
and controle of biotope.
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Culinary and/or medicinal properties:
astringent, depurative and diuretic
properties.
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