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  1. [Pictured] Andromeda polifolia L. – bog rosemary
  2. [Pictured] Arbutus unedo L. – strawberry tree
  3. [Pictured] Arctostaphylos alpinus (L.) Spreng. – Arctic bearberry
  4. [Pictured] Arctostaphylos uva-ursi (L.) Spreng. – bearberry
  5. [Pictured] Calluna vulgaris (L.) Hull – heather
  6. [Pictured] Daboecia cantabrica (Huds.) K. Koch – St. Dabeoc’s heath
  7. Empetrum nigrum L. – crowberry
    1. [Pictured] Empetrum nigrum subsp. hermaphroditum (Hagerup) Böcher – hermaphroditic crowberry
    2. [Pictured] Empetrum nigrum subsp. nigrum L. – dioecious crowberry
  8. [Pictured] Erica arborea L. – tree heath
  9. [Pictured] Erica carnea L. – winter heath
  10. [Pictured] Erica ciliaris L. – Dorset heath
  11. [Pictured] Erica cinerea L. – bell heather
  12. [Pictured] Erica erigena R. Ross – Irish heath
  13. [Pictured] Erica lusitanica Rudolphi – Portuguese heath
  14. Erica mackayana Bab. – Mackay’s heath
  15. Erica terminalis Salisb. – Corsican heath
  16. [Pictured] Erica tetralix L. – cross-leaved heath
  17. [Pictured] Erica vagans L. – Cornish heath
  18. [Pictured] Erica × darleyensis Bean – Darley Dale heath
  19. [Pictured] Gaultheria mucronata (L. f.) Hook. & Arn. – prickly heath
  20. Gaultheria procumbens L. – checkerberry
  21. [Pictured] Gaultheria shallon Pursh – shallon
  22. [Pictured] Hypopitys monotropa Crantz – yellow bird’s-nest
  23. Kalmia angustifolia L. – sheep laurel
  24. [Pictured] Kalmia latifolia L. – mountain laurel
  25. Kalmia polifolia Wangenh. – bog laurel
  26. [Pictured] Kalmia procumbens (L.) Galasso, Banfi & F. Conti – trailing azalea
  27. Leucothoe fontanesiana (Steud.) Sleumer – dog hobble
  28. [Pictured] Moneses uniflora (L.) A. Gray – one-flowered wintergreen
  29. [Pictured] Orthilia secunda (L.) House – serrated wintergreen
  30. Phyllodoce caerulea (L.) Bab. – blue heath
  31. Pyrola media Sw. – intermediate wintergreen
  32. [Pictured] Pyrola minor L. – common wintergreen
  33. Pyrola rotundifolia L. – round-leaved wintergreen
    1. [Pictured] Pyrola rotundifolia subsp. maritima Kenyon ex E. F. Warb. – dune wintergreen
    2. [Pictured] Pyrola rotundifolia subsp. rotundifolia L. – round-leaved wintergreen
  34. Rhododendron groenlandicum (Oeder) Kron & Judd – Labrador tea
  35. [Pictured] Rhododendron luteum Sweet – yellow azalea
  36. [Pictured] Rhododendron ponticum L. – rhododendron
  37. [Pictured] Rhododendron × superponticum Cullen – hybrid rhododendron
  38. Vaccinium corymbosum L. – highbush blueberry
  39. Vaccinium macrocarpon Aiton – American cranberry
  40. [Pictured] Vaccinium microcarpum (Turcz. ex Rupr.) Schmalh. – small cranberry
  41. [Pictured] Vaccinium myrtillus L. – bilberry
  42. [Pictured] Vaccinium oxycoccos L. – cranberry
  43. [Pictured] Vaccinium uliginosum L. – bog bilberry
  44. [Pictured] Vaccinium vitis-idaea L. – cowberry
L-R: Bidens tripartita, Melilotus officinalis, Mimulus guttatus, Thalictrum flavum, Ranunculus peltatus, Anchusa arvensis, Malva alcea, Lolium perenne