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The Sandhill-rosemary, Florida-rosemary or Sand heath, Ceratiola ericoides, is a shrub usually included in the plant family Ericaceae, though treated by some botanists in the Empetraceae.
It is native to infertile, dry sandy sites in the coastal southeast United States, in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi and South Carolina. It commonly occurs together with Sand pine and/or species of oakThis article is about oak trees and shrubs. OAK is also the three-letter IATA airport code for Oakland International Airport in Oakland, California USA. See also Oak, Nebraska, USA. See List of Quercus species The term oak can be used as part of the commo. Like Sand pine, it is adapted to regenerate by seed after periodic forest fires.
Its habitat is important for the endangered Florida Sand SkinkSand Skink Sand Skink Neoseps reynoldsi : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Squamata : Sauria : Scincidae : Neoseps : reynoldsi Binomial name Neoseps reynoldsi Stejneger 1910 There is only one species known of the genus Neoseps the Neoseps reynoldsi common in central Florida.
The name derives from the species' superficial similarity to the unrelated EuropeFor the band of the same name, see Europe (band . Europe is a continent forming the westermost part of the Eurasian supercontinent. Europe is bounded to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the west by the Atlantic Ocean, to the south by the Mediterranean Sean shrub RosemaryRosemary Rosemary branch with flowers Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae Division: Magnoliophyta Class: Magnoliopsida Order: Lamiales Family: Lamiaceae Rosmarinus officinalis Binomial name Rosmarinus officinalis Linnaeus Rosemary Rosmarinus offici, familiar for its leaves used as a herbA herb (pronounced "urb" in American English and "hurb" in British English) is a plant grown for culinary or medicinal value. Typically, the green, leafy part of the plant is used. General usage differs between culinary herbs and medicinal herbs. A medici. Florida-rosemary is not however edible.
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Gsrcorp factsheet (with photos)
