Erica umbellata

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Erica umbellata, photographed by Iago Sanmartín Villar — fig. b Iago Sanmartín Villar, CC0 1.0 / obs. 199049133

Erica umbellata, photographed by Santiago Martín-Bravo — fig. d Santiago Martín-Bravo, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 191121514

Erica umbellata, photographed by Paulo Martins — fig. e Paulo Martins, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 183705496

Erica umbellata, photographed by Daniel Cahen — fig. f Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 183317817

Erica umbellata, photographed by Duarte Frade — fig. g Duarte Frade, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 183233054

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Native range 3 botanical countries

Native distribution of Erica umbellata, 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.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
Portugal	POR	EUROPE
Spain	SPA
Morocco	MOR	AFRICA

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 305 in flower of 327 examined

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78%

Proportion of examined Erica umbellata in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	7	9	78%	45% to 94%
Feb	12	12	100%	76% to 100%
Mar	43	43	100%	92% to 100%
Apr	77	81	95%	88% to 98%
May	87	90	97%	91% to 99%
Jun	48	49	98%	89% to 100%
Jul	12	12	100%	76% to 100%
Aug	11	14	79%	52% to 92%
Sep	0	1	too few examined
Oct	1	4	too few examined
Nov	0	3	too few examined
Dec	7	9	78%	45% to 94%

Peak flowering in Feb. Each bar is the share of Erica umbellata 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. 305 of 327 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 3 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. 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 9 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 lentiformis Salisb.
Erica umbellata f. albiflora D.C.McClint.
Erica umbellata f. umbellata
Erica umbellata subsp. major (Coss. ex Bourg.) P.Silva & Teles
Erica umbellata var. major Coss. ex Bourg.
Erica umbellata var. umbellata
Ericodes umbellatum (L.) Kuntze
Ericoides umbellatum (L.) Kuntze
Gypsocallis umbellata (L.) D.Don

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
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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