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Tour Scotland video of purple and white Scottish Heather on a visit to Highland Perthshire. Heather is seen as iconic of Scotland, where the plant grows widely. When poems like Bonnie Auld Scotland speak of " fragrant hills of purple heather ", when the hero of Kidnapped flees through the heather, when heather and Scotland are linked in the same sentence, the heather talked about is Calluna vulgaris. Heather is an important food source for various sheep and deer which can graze the tips of the plants when snow covers low growing vegetation.