This plant tends to grow in the boggier areas of heathland or acid upland along with Erica cinerea, and Calluna vulgaris. You can recognise the difference between this and the other two apart from the leaves (cross leaved) as the flowers tend to be in prominent pink drooping clumps at the top of their stems.
Cwm Idwal 7th July 2002
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