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Flower from Chesil Beach on 11 August |
Foliage at Chesil Beach on 11 August |
Form from Sandwich in July |
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Common Name Click to Exit to Comparison Page or or link to |
*Sea Holly from Umbellifer Family |
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Botanical Name |
Eryngium maritimum |
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Soil |
Sand and Shingle shores around the coasts of the British Isles north to Shetland. |
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Sun Aspect |
Full Sun |
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Soil Moisture |
Dry |
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Plant Type |
Stiff, hairless, creeping widely, also intense glaucous glabrous and branched perennial |
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Height x Spread in feet |
1.5 x 3 |
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Foliage |
Spiny bluish-green leaves with white edges and veins |
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Flower Colour in Month(s). Seed |
Globular, spiny flower heads of powder blue and mauve, with broad spiny bracts in July-August followed by fruits covered with hooked papillae (papillae = small elongated projections) |
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Comment |
Native UK plant. Available as seed from John Chambers' Wild Flower Seeds and plant from BritishFlora |
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Flower with Spiny Bracts from Sandwich in Kent in July |
Single Leaf |
Form from East Kent on 11 July |
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Flower Bud Closed |
Juvenile Fruits at East Kent on 11 July |
Juvenile Fruit at Sandwich in July |
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