Erica ciliaris is a species of heather, known in the British Isles as Dorset heath.

[1] It grows to 60 centimetres (24 inches), and has leaves 2–4 millimetres (1⁄16–3⁄16 in) long, with long, glandular hairs.

[1] Erica ciliaris has a Lusitanian distribution, stretching from Morocco in the south, along the Atlantic coasts of Portugal, Spain and France to south-western parts of the British Isles in the north.

[2] In the British Isles, it is only found natively in Dorset, Devon, Cornwall and one location in County Galway,[3] where it lives in bogs and wet heaths.

[1] E. ciliaris was voted the county flower of Dorset in 2002 following a poll by the wild flora conservation charity Plantlife.