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Saltwort Salsola kali showing cross section of leaf and individual flower

Marram grass Ammophila arenaria

Lesser Sea spurrey Spergularia marina showing plant and seed

Greater Sea spurrey Spergularia media showing mat-forming plant, individual flowe, and winged seed

English Stonecrop Sedum anglicum with individual detail of flowers, plant, leaf attachment

Danish Scurvy-grass Cochlearia danica with pod

Common Sea lavender Limonium vulgare with individual flower, and anther attachment to petal

Common Scurvy-grass Cochlearia officinalis showing distinctive basal rosette

Common Restharrow Ononis repens showing its sprawlign habit and pink flowers

Common Glasswort Salicornia europaea showing the platn and a close up of the tiny petal free flower

Common Cord Grass Spartina anglica showing grass, flowering spike, rhizome, and characteristic growth pattern

Common centaury Centaurium erythraea showing plant with basal rosette and detail of individual flower

Bucks horn plantain Plantago maritima showing plant and an individual flower

Sea spurge Euphorbia paralias botanical illustration by Lizzie Harper showing flowering and non flowering shoot and individual flower

Salt marsh landscape showing mud and a cross section of the snails and invertebrates who live here, wading and predatory birds above in the glasswort and aquatic plants; further away from the salt estuary are soft cliffs and the distant sea

Sanderling Calidris alba standing in a rockpool with seaweed covered stones on a beach with lots of other wading birds behind and distant sea view of a rocky coast

Sanderling Calidris alba

Curlew Numenius arquata