Erica multifloraL.

WFO wfo-0000672656 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Erica multiflora, photographed by carnifex
fig. a carnifex, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-09 / obs. 202124666
Erica multiflora, photographed by Katrin Simon
fig. b Katrin Simon, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 189435672
Erica multiflora, photographed by Hill Craddock
fig. c Hill Craddock, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 173515977
Erica multiflora, photographed by Hill Craddock
fig. d Hill Craddock, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 173332295
Erica multiflora, photographed by Julien Renoult
fig. e Julien Renoult, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 167809223
Erica multiflora, photographed by Ben Costamagna
fig. f Ben Costamagna, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 164191750
Erica multiflora, photographed by Grzegorz Grzejszczak
fig. g Grzegorz Grzejszczak, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 187920598
Erica multiflora, photographed by Grzegorz Grzejszczak
fig. h Grzegorz Grzejszczak, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 187920429

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Native range 14 botanical countries

Regions where Erica multiflora is native: Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, Albania, Baleares, Corse, France, Greece, Italy, NW. Balkan Pen., Sardegna, Sicilia, Spain AlgeriaLibyaMoroccoTunisiaAlbaniaCorseFranceGreeceItalyNW. Balkan Pen.SiciliaSpain BalearesSardegna
Native distribution of Erica multiflora, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Albania ALB EUROPE
Baleares BAL
Corse COR
France FRA
Greece GRC
Italy ITA
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Sardegna SAR
Sicilia SIC
Spain SPA
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Libya LBY
Morocco MOR
Tunisia TUN

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 372 in flower of 422 examined

Peak flowering in Nov. Each bar is the share of Erica multiflora observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 372 of 422 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 13 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Erica dianthera Moench
  • Erica multiflora f. alba (Regel) D.C.McClint.
  • Erica multiflora subsp. hyblaea Domina & Raimondo
  • Erica multiflora var. alba Regel
  • Erica peduncularis C.Presl
  • Erica purpurascens Lam.
  • Erica umbellifera Loisel.
  • Erica umbelliflora K.Koch
  • Erica vagans Desf.
  • Ericoides multiflorum (L.) Kuntze
  • Gypsocallis multiflora (L.) G.Don
  • Gypsocallis multiflora (L.) D.Don
  • Gypsocallis multiflora var. alba Louden

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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