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The Sandhill-rosemary, Florida-rosemary or sand heath, ''Ceratiola ericoides'', is a species of 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 southeastern United States, in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi and South Carolina. It commonly occurs together with sand pine and species of oak. Like sand pine, it is adapted to regenerate by seed after periodic forest fires. Its habitat is important for the endangered Florida sand skink (''Neoseps reynoldsi'') in central Florida. The name derives from the species' superficial similarity to the unrelated European shrub rosemary, familiar for its leaves used as a herb. Florida-rosemary is not edible. Rosemary can grow to about 1.5 to 8 feet tall. This is NOT the kind you use for cooking. It flowers in spring, summer and fall, and grows in the Martime Hammocks. ==External links== *(Fact sheet ) on the species, from the Georgia Department of Natural Resources 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ceratiola ericoides」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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