an area of open uncultivated land, typically on acid sandy soil, with characteristic vegetation of heather, gorse, and coarse grasses

horses were being exercised on the heath

the marshland gave way to heath and sandy scrub

a dwarf shrub with small leathery leaves and small pink or purple bell-shaped flowers, characteristic of heaths and moorland

a small light brown and orange European butterfly which typically has eyespots on the wings, the caterpillar feeding on grasses

a yellowish-brown chiefly day-flying European moth of heathland and grassland