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Definition of Calluna vulgaris
1. Noun. Common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the northern hemisphere.
Generic synonyms: Heath
Group relationships: Calluna, Genus Calluna
Lexicographical Neighbors of Calluna Vulgaris
Literary usage of Calluna vulgaris
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1886)
"calluna vulgaris, Salisb.—' There is in this countrie two kinds of Heath, ...
Heather, Cat. See Cat Heather. Heather, Dog. calluna vulgaris, Salisb. ..."
2. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1862)
"It is understood, however, that an English surveyor, nearly thirty years »go,
found calluna vulgaris in the interior of Newfoundland ; also that De la ..."
3. Wild flowers worth notice by Phebe Lankester (1879)
"calluna vulgaris. THE Heather grows, as I have said, in common with the heaths,
and is often mistaken for them. Its smaller more purple blossoms, ..."
4. Views of Nature: Or, Contemplations on the Sublime Phenomena of Creation by Alexander von Humboldt, Elise C. Otté, Henry George Bohn (1850)
"The common heath, calluna vulgaris (Salisbury), which is a social plant, covers
large tracts from the mouth of the Scheldt to the western declivity of the ..."
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