page_title: Ericaceae
section_title: Genera
hierarchical_section_title: Ericaceae / Genera
caption_attribution_description: Zenobia pulverulenta. Real Jardín Botánico de Madrid.
context_page_description: Ericaceae is a family of flowering plants in the order Ericales. Plants of this family grow both in Northern Hemisphere and Southern Hemisphere. The common English name of Ericaceae is the heath family.
  Many plants of Ericaceae are shrubs, but there are also trees and herbs.
  There are about 120 genera and about 4000 species in this family.
  Many plants of Ericaceae are evergreen plants with small flowers in the shape of bells or tube. The color of flowers may be white, pink, red, violet, rarely yellow. It may be interest plants for gardens.
  Fruits of some species are edible.
  Some plants of Ericaceae have a poison in all their parts.
  The genus Epacris was treated in a separate family, Epacridaceae, but Epacris is now in this family.
context_section_description: Acrostemon
  Acrotriche
  Agapetes
  Agarista
  Allotropa
  Andersonia
  Andromeda, Bog-rosemary. 1 or 2 species of small shrubs from bogs of northern parts of the Northern Hemisphere.
  Anomalanthus
  Anthopteropsis
  Anthopterus
  Arachnocalyx
  Arbutus
  Arctostaphylos
  Astroloma
  Bejaria
  Brachyloma
  Bruckenthalia
  Bryanthus
  Calluna
  Calopteryx
  Cassiope
  Cavendishia
  Ceratiola
  Ceratostema
  Chamaedaphne
  Chimaphila
  Coccosperma
  Coilostigma
  Comarostaphylis
  Conostephium
  Corema
  Costera
  Craibiodendron
  Cyathodes
  Daboecia
  Demosthenesia
  Didonica
  Dimorphanthera
  Diogenesia
  Diplarche
  Diplycosia
  Disterigma
  Dracophyllum.  60 species of shrubs or trees with long leaves from Australia and Oceania.
  Empetrum
  Elliottia
  Epacris
  Epigaea
  Enkianthus
  Eremia
  Eremiella
  Erica
  Findlaya
  Gaultheria.135 species.
  Gaylussacia
  Gonocalyx
  Grisebachia
  Harrimanella
  Hemitomes
  Kalmia
  Kalmiopsis
  Killipiella
  Lateropora
  Ledothamnus
  Ledum
  Leiophyllum
  Leucopogon
  Leucothoe
  Lissanthe
  Loiseleuria
  Lyonia
  Macleana
  Macnabia
  Malea
  Menziesia
  Mitrastylus
  Moneses
  Monotoca
  Monotropa
  Monotropsis
  Mycerinus
  Nagelocarpus
  Notopora
  Oreanthes
  Ornithostaphylos
  Orthaea
  Orthilia
  Oxydendrum
  Pellegrinia
  Pentachondra
  Pernettyopsis
  Phyllodoce
  Pieris
  Pityopus
  Platycalyx
  Pleuricospora
  Plutarchia
  Polyclita
  Prionotes
  Psammisia
  Pterospora
  Pyrola
  Rhododendron. 1,024 species of shrubs with beautiful flowers. What gardeners know as azalea is in fact some species of rhododendron.
  Rhodothamnus
  Richea.  Shrubs or trees with long leaves from Tasmania and Australia.
  Rusbya
  Salaxis
  Sarcodes
  Satyria
  Scyphogyne
  Semiramisia
  Simocheilus
  Siphonandra
  Sphyrospermum
  Stokoeanthus
  Styphelia
  Sympieza
  Syndsmanthus
  Tepuia
  Thamnus
  Themistoclesia
  Therorhodion
  Thibaudia
  Thoracosperma
  Trochocarpa
  Tsusiophyllum
  Utleya
  Vaccinium. 450 species of shrubs. Well-known species are blueberries, cranberries and huckleberries.
  Woollsia
  Xylococcus
  Zenobia, Honeycup. Small shrubs from bogs of south-east of USA. 1 species.
caption: Zenobia pulverulenta
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