Common Name

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**Sea Kale from Cabbage Family

Botanical Name

Crambe maritima

Soil

On coastal sands, shingle, rocks and cliffs and often a plant of the drift line - as you can see above - round the UK coastline

Sun Aspect

Full Sun

Soil Moisture

Dry

Plant Type

Perennial Herb with branched fleshy root-stock from which horizontal underground stolons arise. Stem erect, 1" in diameter, branching from the base.

Height x Spread in feet

2 x 4

Foliage

Grey, waxy, very thick and fleshy, with crinkly lobes

Flower Colour in Month(s). Seeds

White in June-August followed by seeds which are dispersed by sea-water in which they float for 7-10 days without loss of viability.

Comment

Cultivated for its asparagus-like shoots, blanched by darkening the sprouting stocks.

Available as seed from John Chambers' Wild Flower Seeds and plant from Coblands Nurseries Ltd