
Common heather. This is the commonest native species, with purplish-pink flowers on small pedicels.
There are many very distinct and beautiful-flowering forms, the following being some of the best: Calluna vulgaris alba, white-flowered; Calluna vulgaris Hammondi, Calluna vulgaris minor, and Calluna vulgaris pilosa, all white-flowered forms.
Calluna vulgaris Alportii, and Calluna vulgaris Alportii variegata, the former bearing rich crimson flowers, and the latter with distinctly variegated foliage.
Calluna vulgaris argentea, and Calluna vulgaris aurea, with silvery-variegated and golden foliage; Calluna vulgaris flore-pleno, a most beautiful and free-growing variety, with double flowers.
Calluna vulgaris Foxii, a dwarf plant that does not flower freely; and Calluna vulgaris pumila, and Calluna vulgaris dumosa, which are of small cushion-like growth.

• Opposite is a flowering shrub picture.
• Information about the Calluna flowering shrubs.
• There are many flowering shrubs in the flowering shrub section.
• There are shrub pictures in the flowering shrub pictures gallery.
• The Calluna is a flowering shrub.
• Flowering shrubs and bushes.