A4 Print - Heath
Do you recognize Labrador tea or the beautiful pink bog rosemary that grows on Danish heaths? This A4 poster gives you a clear overview of the typical plants that grow and thrive on the sandy, nutrient-poor soil. The species are shown in Danish and Latin.
Susanne Weitemeyer has illustrated the 17 plants featured on the poster.
The poster is printed on FSC-certified design paper at a Swan-labelled print shop and is packaged in biodegradable cellophane.
Most Danish heaths were formed by human activity during the Neolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age and the Middle Ages. The heath spread especially quickly from around 1600 to about 1800. It developed partly because of soil exhaustion, burning, peat cutting and grazing.
The print is produced at a Swan-labelled print shop and printed on FSC-certified design paper.
Plants and flowers from the heath on the poster:
Bog rosemary - Andromeda polifolia
Scotch broom - Cytisis scoparius
Wavy hair-grass - Deschampsia flexuosa
Bog myrtle - Myrica gale
Crowberry - Empetrum nigrum
Heath bearberry - Arctostaphylos uva-ursi
Gorse - Ulex europaeus
Labrador tea - Rhododendron tomentosum
Bog bilberry - Vaccinium uliginosum
Common heather - Culluna vulgaris
Lingonberry - Vaccinium vitis-idea
Common polypody - polypodium vulgare
English gorse - Genista anglica
Cross-leaved heath - Erica tetralix
Bog cranberry - Vaccinium oxycoccus
Creeping willow - Salix repens
