Heather (Calluna vulgaris)

Family: Ericaceae | Edibility: Edible (2/5)

Bloom Color: Pink, Purple, Red. Main Bloom Time: Early fall, Late summer, Mid summer. Form: Rounded, Spreading or horizontal, Upright or erect.

Edible Parts & Harvest Seasons

Edible Parts: Leaves

Harvest Seasons: Early Summer, Spring

Flavor & Culinary Uses

flavour beer. — A tea is made from the flowering stems.; A kind of mead was once brewed from the flowers and the young shoots have been used instead of hops to flavour beer.

Habitat & North American Range

Acid soils in open woodlands, moors and marshy ground. Often the dominant plant on well-drained acid moors and heaths. (Zone 4, Zone 5, Zone 6, Zone 7)