Erica gracilis flowers

The small, pink flowers of Erica gracilis grow stalked in small stem-tip clusters, often in profusion from small side-branchlets. There are leaf-like bracteoles on the flower stalk and four narrow sepals, purplish in colour, at the base of the about urn-shaped corolla. The dry and faintly hairy corolla has four, shallowly rounded lobes angling out slightly from the widish mouth. The eight dark anthers are included in the corolla with horn-like tails at the base. The stamens are shorter than the style, ending in a pinhead stigma about at the level of the corolla mouth.

Flowering happens from winter to early summer (Manning and Helme, 2024; Bond and Goldblatt, 1984; iNaturalist).