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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

Beautiful demoiselle Calopteryx virgo male in side view showing irridescent blue body and beautiful irridescent wings held folded, perched on water side vegetation with red eyes and bright green thorax clear

Ivy leaved toadflax Cymbalaria muralis in flwoer

Biting stonecrop Sedum acre sprig with two flowering spikes and a few vegetative ones

Welsh river landscape looking across a stretch of smooth water to the trees on the opposite bank

View of a head water stream with dipper, wagtail, waterfall and damselflies then view of a river with a heron fishing from a shingle bank, sand marten flying low, and dragonfly and beetles at home amongst driftwood; the river meanders on to a wetland meadow delta with grazing herds and established aquatic plant communities flanking […]

Little tern Sternula albifrons flying over a beach with marram grass on dunes, shingelo behind, and distant hills on the horizon