Erica × darleyensis (Darley Dale Heath) Southeastern Native Give it full sun to

Give it full sun to part shade and well-drained soil

blooms heavily

and in zones eight and warmer the leaves can be dried and brewed for homegrown maté

and opossums

who collected it in southern Brazil in 1819

Erica × darleyensis (Darley Dale Heath) Southeastern Native Give it full sun toHeaths and heathers run to dozens of species and hundreds of named forms, and most of them sulk in the heat and humidity of the American South. Erica darleyensis, a hybrid of two European mountain heaths, Erica erigena and Erica carnea, is one of the happy exceptions, tough and adaptable enough to give Southern gardeners a real chance at a plant most only admire in cooler climates. The renowned plantsman Michael Dirr, in his Manual of Woody Landscape