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purple heather

NOUN
  1. semi-prostrate evergreen herb of western United States

How To Use purple heather In A Sentence

  • They sometimes take over a whole neglected meadow, which looks as if it is covered with tall purple heather. Times, Sunday Times
  • One day, we had glorious sunshine and the velvet hills blazed with purple heather. Times, Sunday Times
  • The views were spectacular: soaring hills, swathes of purple heather and a tiny burn bubbling along the bottom of the valley. Times, Sunday Times
  • Its edge sliced the crisp air, graceful as its owner that stepped and leapt, feral across the ground, through the low purple heathers and verdant mosses.
  • Between the tussocks of grass grew purple heather and tufted bog cotton, which were used in the old days for pillows and mattresses.
  • The air over the high purple heather was dense with heavy black gnats, flying ants, and scary but sleepy long orange and black insects.
  • And she led him to a tall plane tree, beneath whose shade grew arbutus, and lentisk, and purple heather bushes. Types of Children's Literature
  • Around me is rolling grassland and Ribena-purple heather-beds, all chock-full of birdlife, from choughs to corn buntings to petrels.
  • Above the tree line grew the now widespread purple heather, holly and cranberries, mixed in with small shrubs. EXTINCTION: Evolution and the End of Man
  • A third of it is open heathland, carpeted with purple heathers and spotted yellow with gorse.
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