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- Subclass of
- shrubland
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- OpenStreetMap tag
- natural=heath
- Commons category
- Heathland
- topic's main category
- Category:Heaths
- different from
- abandoned village
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
- exact match
- purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000107
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
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- Anthropogenic heaths
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thumb|upright=1.5|Flowering heath on Amrum, Germany
A heath () is a shrubland habitat found mainly on free-draining infertile, acidic soils and is characterised by open, low-growing woody vegetation. Moorland is generally related to high-ground heaths with—especially in Great Britain—a cooler and damper climate.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “heath” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.