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Marram grass Ammophila arenaria with detail of flowering head, ligule and in-rolled leaf

Bittern Botaurus stellaris cut to white showing cryptic colouring and large beak and legs

Two Little stint Calidris minuta in summer plumage on shoreline

Little stint Calidris minuta in summer plumage

Rocky shore line ecosystem zonation of species.  Some of the animals and pants featured include whelks, mussels, bladderwrack, star fish, top shells, periwinkles, crabs, branacles, and anenomes.  Illustration from The Hidden Universe: Adventures in Biodiversity by Alexandre Antonelli

Alexanders Smyrnium olusatrum with Puccinia smyrnii rust on some leaves, and detail of one flower and one seed.

Blue mussels Mytilus edulis with byssal threads on wooden piling.  Illustration includes barnacles and limpets, and some bladder wrack seaweed.  Illustration from “30 Animals that made us smarter” by Patrick Ayree (BBC Books).

Large landscape showing an idealised view of Bantham estate in Devon.  It explains the process of succession and stabilization in a sand dunes landscape.  Over 28 species of plant and 17 animals appear in this natural history illustration.  These include adders to sand wasps, Comma butterflies to linnets, and marram grass to Sea carrots. Species […]

Yellow horned-poppy Galucium flavum with seed pod

Thrift Armeria maritima with individual flower detail

Spring squill Scilla verna botanical illustration by Lizzie Harper showing large bulb

Sheeps bit Jasione montana showing plant and individual flower

Sea wormwood Artemesia maritima with outline showing shape of one lower leaf and flowering spike

Sea Sandwort Honckenya peploides showing distinctive stacked leaves and individual flower

Sea rocket Cakile maritima with detail of cross section through seed pod

Sea radish Raphanus raphanistrum maritimus with detail of one leaflet and constricted seed pod

Sea plantain Plantago maritima

Sea pea Lathyrus japonicus with detail of pea pod, seed, and square stem

Sea Milkwort Glaux maritima with individual flower in leaf axis

Sea mayweed Tripleurospermum maritimum with disc floret and achene with elongated oil gland

Sea holly Eryngium maritimum with single bract and seed

Sea Kale Crambe maritima

Sea campion Silene maritima showing inflated calyx, purplish stem tint and large white flowers

Sea carrot Daucus carota gummifer showing individual purple and white flowers and seed