
Rocky shore line ecosystem zonation of species
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

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

Sea plantain Plantago maritima
Sea plantain Plantago maritima

Sea Milkwort Glaux maritima
Sea Milkwort Glaux maritima with individual flower in leaf axis

Sea aster Aster tripolium
Sea aster Aster tripolium

Saltwort Salsola kali
Saltwort Salsola kali showing cross section of leaf and individual flower

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

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

Saltmarsh landscape
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