Heather (disambiguation)

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Heather may refer to:

• In botany, the plant Calluna
• More loosely, various species of the genera Erica and Cassiope, closely related to Calluna
• Heather, Leicestershire, a village in England
• The name of the yacht Heather that was built in 1902 and later became the USS Sea Gull
• Heather, a popular, usually female, Scottish forename, named after the plant
  • The name given to the Little Red-Haired Girl from the comic strip Peanuts in some of the animated spin-offs
• "Bull in the Heather", a song by Sonic Youth and covered by The Go! Team
• "Heather", an unreleased song by Paul McCartney / Donovan
• Hurricane Heather, the name for three tropical storms
• Heathers, a 1989 film directed by Michael Lehmann
• A "Heather", a small (2cm) painted orange or red dot used to mark hiking trails on the island of Skopelos (after Heather Parsons)
• In clothing, Heather refers to interwoven yarns of mixed colors producing muted greyish shades with flecks of color (e.g. heather green)
• The name of a song from fusion drummer Billy Cobham's 1974 album "Crosswinds"