Heather is a low, spreading plant with small purple, pink, or white flowers. Heather grows wild in Europe on high land with poor soil. a low plant with small purple, pink, or white flowers which grows on hills (haddir, hathir (14-18 centuries); influenced by heath). or Scotch heather Low evergreen shrub (Calluna vulgaris) of the heath family, widespread in western Europe and Asia, North America, and Greenland. It is the chief vegetation on many wastelands of northern and western Europe. C. vulgaris is distinguished from true heaths, which are sometimes loosely called heather, by the lobes of its calyx (see flower), which conceal the petals; in true heaths the petals cover the calyx. Scotch heather has purple stems, close-leaved green shoots, and feathery spikes of bell-shaped flowers. It has various economic uses: large stems are made into brooms, shorter ones are tied into bundles that serve as brushes, and long trailing shoots are woven into baskets
Blended fibers combined to create a vari-colored effect; e g heather gray This fabric typically contains 3 fibers: cotton, polyester or rayon When garments or of Ash, Birch, Heather Grey, Steel Grey, Light Steel, etc these colors are NEVER 100% Cotton Another fiber MUST be added with the cotton in order to achieve the necessary color NOTE: If a fabric contains 95% cotton it can be LEGALLY labeled 100% cotton
A low shrub with minute evergreen leaves, and handsome clusters of pink flowers It is used in Great Britain for brooms, thatch, beds for the poor, and for heating ovens It is called both heather, and ling Also, a place overgrown with heath; any cheerless tract of country overgrown with shrubs or coarse herbage
A yarn that is spun using pre-dyed fibers These fibers are blended together to give a particular look (For example, black and white may be blended together to create a grey heathered yarn ) The term, heather, may also be used to describe the fabric made from heathered yarns