This is Common Heather or Ling, Calluna vulgaris, and is in flower at the moment on heaths and moors all over the UK and Ireland. It smells amazing - just like the honey the bees make from it. People sometimes get confused about our heath plants: bell heather, ling, cross-leaved heath and the rare ones such as Dorset, Cornish, Irish, Mackay's and St Dabeoc's. Ling is easy - the leaves are unlike any of the others.
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