spotting wild flowers

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

Sea bindweed Calystegia soldanella

Sea beet Beta vulgaris maritima by Lizzie Harper showing flowering head, one large leaf, and detail of individual flowers and seed

Sea aster Aster tripolium

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