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Smugglers Heath

Erica mackayana

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist. — (c) saultorrecilla, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Spain.

Spain	251
Principado de Asturias	175
Galicia	75
United States	1
Maine	1
Cantabria	1
Ireland	1
Connacht	1

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Physical

Aquatic larvaLarval stage lives in water before becoming terrestrialFrom its classification

Classification

Kingdom	Plants · Plantae
Phylum	Vascular Plants · Tracheophyta
Class	Dicots · Magnoliopsida
Order	Heathers, Balsams, Primroses, and Allies · Ericales
Family	heath family · Ericaceae
Genus	Heaths · Erica

Sources

Names, taxonomy and observation counts: www.inaturalist.org
Photos and recordings: the creator and source are on each one.
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