Common name:
Sea milkwort
Family:
Scientific name:
Lysimachia maritima
Synonym:
Glaux maritima
Main flower color:
Range:
Coastal regions all across the British Isles
Height:
A few cm - a prostrate plant, with creeping stems up to 30 cm
Habitat:
Saltmarshes, damp sand dunes, and occasionally further inland beside saline springs
Flowers:
Around 5 mm in diameter; five pink sepals (no petals), five stamens with purplish filaments and yellow anthers, and a central pistil. Flowers are solitary and sessile, at the leaf nodes
Fruit:
Brown capsules, with residual style at the tip
Leaves:
Succulent, opposite, narrowly ovate, up to 12 mm long
Season:
May to September
Rarity:
★★★★★
