Mappp.co geology and wildlife sites

South Walney and Piel Channel Flats

…le areas less prone to flooding. Saltmarsh plants including common sea lavender Limonium vulgare and sea purslane Atriplex portulacoides colonise the lower, silted shingle hooks on Foulney Island with common saltmarsh grass Puccinellia maritima dominated vegetation present on Sou…

Morecambe Bay

…g is not practised a number of salt tolerant plants such as common sea lavender Limonium vulgare, lax flowered sea lavender Limonium humile and sea purslane Atriplex portulacoides occur. Brackish water areas to the inland edge of the marshes and along rivers support communities d…

Duddon Estuary

…ungrazed, sea aster Aster tripolium and two species of sea lavender, the common Limonium vulgare and the uncommon lax flowered Limonium humile. sea rush Juncus maritimus, commonly occurs as a fringe on the landward edge of the saltmarsh. In brackish water areas along rivers and i…

Lune Estuary

…ts which are particularly sensitive to grazing, such as the common sea lavender Limonium vulgare, the rarer lax flowered sea lavender Limonium humile and sea wormwood Artemisia maritima have survived on a small area of ungrazed saltmarsh at Conder Green which supports the widest …

Drigg Coast

…nd lightly grazed sections two species of sea lavender are abundant. The common Limonium vulgare and the rare, lax flowered sea lavender Limonium humile. Another rare community, dominated by sea wormwood Artemesia maritime, also occurs on the Esk on a creek bank beyond the reach …

Blackwater Estuary

…ia maritima predominate, with sea aster Aster tripolium and common sea lavender Limonium vulgare. The nationally scarce lax flowered sea lavender Limonium humile is sometimes interspersed among the more common species, but the main site for this is at Old Hall. Scarce saltmarsh g…

Upper Colne Marshes

…h grass Puccinellia maritima, sea aster Aster tripolium and common sea lavender Limonium vulgare with the nationally uncommon lax flowered sea lavender Limonium humile and large stands of sea wormwood Artemisia maritima. In places the marshes show a natural transition to a high m…

Morfa Dyffryn

… lower parts of the marsh. Here the nationally scarce lax flowered sea-lavender Limonium humile is abundant with only occasional common sea-lavender Limonium vulgare. Other typical species include sea arrowgrass Triglochin maritimum, sea plantain Plantago maritima, common saltmar…

Stour Estuary

…th sea aster Aster tripolium, annual sea blite Suaeda maritima and sea lavender Limonium vulgare are scattered throughout, together with the scarce lax flowered sea lavender Limonium humile. Adjoining lower areas are colonised by clumps of sea lavender, perennial glasswort Sarcoc…

Hamford Water

…h covers one third of the area. Thrift Armeria maritima and common sea lavender Limonium vulgare, together with the rarer rock sea lavender L. binervosum and lax flowered sea lavender Limonium humile. sea purslane Atriplex portulacoides and saltmarsh grass Puccinellia sp. occur o…

Wyre Estuary

…t area of a mixed community distinctive for the presence of common sea lavender Limonium vulgare, sea plantain Plantago maritima and sea arrowgrass Triglochin maritimum. The nationally scarce lax flowered sea lavender Limonium humile is also present. Most of the sea purslane domi…

Crouch and Roach Estuaries

… Puccinellia maritima, sea purslane Atriplex portulacoides, common sea lavender Limonium vulgare and thrift Armeria maritima become progressively more frequent. Several uncommon plants can also be found, including lax flowered Sea lavender Limonium humile one flowered glasswort …

Benfleet and Southend Marshes

…high marsh flora of sea purslane Atriplex portulacoides and common sea lavender Limonium vulgare, together with sea arrowgrass Triglochin maritimum, common saltmarsh grass Puccinellia maritima, sea aster Aster tripolium and the scarce laxflowered sea lavender Limonium humile. Th…

North Solent

…xed saltmarsh dominated by sea purslane Atriplex portulacoides and sea lavender Limonium vulgare which forms a mosaic with the more abundant Spartina marsh to a low level sea glasswort Salicornia species marsh adjacent to the river channel. The range of saltmarsh types contain ra…

Foulness

…ccinellia maritima, sea purslane Atriplex portulacoides and common sea lavender Limonium vulgare, with sea aster Aster tripolium and annual sea blite Suaeda maritima at the lower levels. There are a number of uncommon plants associated with the saltmarshes, including borrer's sal…

Newtown Harbour

…pecies community in which saltmarsh grass Puccinellia maritima and sea lavender Limonium vulgare are dominant rather than cord grass Spartina which dominates most saltmarshes around the Solent. There is an abundance of associated saltmarsh species including thrift Armeria maritim…

Breydon Water

… and this zone grades into mid marsh where typical species include sea lavender Limonium vulgare, sea aster Aster tripolium, sea purslane Atriplex portulacoides, sea plantain Plantago maritima and sea poa Puccinellia maritima. The saltmarsh is replaced by brackish reed swamp at t…

North Norfolk Coast

…r marsh which in turn grades into the extensive areas of midmarsh. Sea lavender Limonium vulgare is dominant with sea purslane Atriplex portulacoides lining the banks of the creeks. Other species occurring in this zone include sea plantain Plantago maritima, sea arrowgrass Triglo…

Upper Solway Flats & Marshes

…r salt tolerant plants halophytes, such as sea milkwort and common sea lavender Limonium vulgare, are more local in their distribution. These and other herbaceous species are restricted by stock grazing and are found most often fringing the creeks and channels. Towards the landwa…

Berrow Dunes

…lkwort Glaux maritima, sea arrowgrass Triglochin maritimum, common sea lavender Limonium vulgare and sea aster Aster tripolium. A fore dune is now forming on the seaward edge of this vegetation and is being colonized by sand couch Elytrigia juncea. Yellow dunes of shifting sand b…

King's Quay Shore

…e Atriplex portulacoides commonly with thrift Armeria maritima and sea lavender Limonium vulgare, while in slightly wetter areas, cord grass Spartina anglica dominates. Along the estuary edge at the junction between woodland and saltmarsh, a thin band of sea couch grass Elytrigi…

Teesmouth and Cleveland Coast

…rass communities are diverse and sea aster Aster tripolium, common sea-lavender Limonium vulgare and thrift Armeria maritima provide a colourful late summer display. The most extensive area of saltmarsh occurs on Greatham Creek between the Hartlepool-Billingham railway line an…

Sandwich Bay to Hacklinge Marshes

…flora with species including crow garlic Allium vineale, viper's bugloss Echium vulgare, sea holly Eryngium maritimum and rest-harrow Ononis repens, whilst the nationally rare lizard orchid Himantoglossum hircinum and bedstraw broomrape Orobanche caryophyllacea have their largest…

South Thames Estuary and Marshes

…Puccinellia, the glassworts Salicornia, sea aster Aster tripolium, sea lavender Limonium vulgare and sea purslane Atriplex portulacoides, with nationally scarce plants such as golden samphire Inula crithmoides (4) and Puccinellia fasciculata (4). The grazing marsh complexes, incl…

Adur Estuary

…are scattered throughout the saltmarsh community, including common sea lavender Limonium vulgare, thrift Armeria maritima, sea plantain Plantago maritima and sea poa grass, Puccinellia maritima. Cordgrass Spartina spp. is noticeably absent from most of the estuary, but a small st…

Deben Estuary

…erised by a mosaic of sea poa, sea milkwort Glaux maritima, common sea lavender Limonium vulgare, sea arrowgrass Triglochin maritimum and sea plantain Plantago maritima. Varying proportions of these species are also to be found in the more typical mid marsh communities which beca…

Chichester Harbour

… purslane Atriplex portulacoides while in some areas there is also sea lavender Limonium vulgare, sea aster Aster tripolium and other saltmarsh species. Shingle occurs as spits and islands and most are rather unstable permitting little vegetation to become established. This habit…

Lee-on-the Solent to Itchen Estuary

…ying combinations and amounts of sea aster Aster tripolium, common sea lavender Limonium vulgare and common saltmarsh grass Puccinellia maritima. The nationally scarce Borrer’s and stiff saltmarsh grasses Puccinellia fasciculata and Potentilla rupestris respectively, have also be…

Dengie

…th sea aster Aster tripolium, annual sea blite Suaeda maritima and sea lavender Limonium vulgare scattered throughout. Lower, wetter areas are colonised with lavender and glasswort Salicornia spp. especially just out from the seawall foot where a typical association includes thes…

Lincegrove and Hackett's Marshes

… during the present century. saltmarsh grass Puccinellia maritima, sea lavender Limonium vulgare, thrift Armeria maritima, sea aster Aster tripolium and sea club rush Bolboschoenus maritimus form a mixed community on the higher marsh levels and at the landward margin, the marshes…

Alde-Ore Estuary

…se are mostly dominated by sea purslane Atriplex portulacoides and sea lavender Limonium vulgare, but a wide range of other saltmarsh species also occur, including sea heath Frankenia laevis, glasswort Salicornia pusilla, small cord grass Spartina maritima and Borrer’s saltmarsh …

Colne Estuary

…orter sward of saltmarsh grass, thrift Armeria maritima and common sea lavender Limonium vulgare. Nationally uncommon species such as golden samphire Inula crithmoide and shrubby seablite Suaeda vera occur frequently in the upper marsh and at the foot of the sea walls. shrubby s…

The Swale

…icornia. Other abundant species include sea aster Aster tripolium, sea lavender Limonium vulgare, sea purslane Atriplex portulacoides and common cord grass Spartina anglica while less common plants include small cord grass Spartina maritima* and golden samphire Inula crithmoides*…

Saltfleetby - Theddlethorpe Dunes

…rsh communities is dominated in turn by glasswort Salicornia spp., sea lavender Limonium vulgare associated with sea plantain Plantago maritima and thrift Armeria maritima, sea purslane Halimione portculoides and common saltmarsh grass Puccinellia maritima. sea rush Juncus mariti…

Arfordir Pen-bre / Pembrey Coast

… Associated species include sea plantain Plantago maritima, common sea lavender Limonium vulgare, together with more localised plants such as parsley water-dropwort Oenanthe lachenalii. The Gwendraeth saltmarshes, with their distinctive vegetation assemblages, have features in co…

Orwell Estuary

…ccinellia maritima, sea purslane Atriplex portulacoides and common sea lavender Limonium vulgare. Other species include sea arrowgrass Triglochin maritimum, annual sea blite Suaeda maritima, sea milkwort Glaux maritima, greater sea spurrey Spergularia media and sea plantain Plant…

Pagham Harbour

…ixed saltmarsh community greater sea spurrey Spergularia media and sea lavender Limonium vulgare are found. The upper margin of the saltmarsh has developed a narrow strip of grassland dominated by sea couch Elytrigia atherica. Vegetated shingle is a nationally rare community. At …

Christchurch Harbour

…rass Puccinellia maritima with abundant sea aster Aster tripolium, sea lavender Limonium vulgare, sea arrowgrass Triglochin maritimum, sea plantain Plantago maritima and mud rush Juncus gerardii. Higher level marsh is dominated by sea couch Elytrigia atherica, sea rush Juncus mar…

Gibraltar Point

…ccinellia maritima, sea purslane Atriplex portulacoides and common sea lavender Limonium vulgare. The highest marshes, reached only by exceptionally high tides, support sea couch Elytrigia atherica, sea wormwood Artemisia maritima and sea milkwort Glaux maritima in addition to se…

Medina Estuary

… to higher, mixed marsh community with a richer flora dominated by sea lavender Limonium vulgare, sea plantain Plantago maritima and sea blite Suaeda maritima, with glasswort Salicornia species occupying low ‘pans’. The highest levels of the marsh grade to sea couch grass Elytrig…

Bridgwater Bay

…wormwood Artemisia maritima, saltmarsh rush Juncus gerardi, common sea lavender Limonium vulgare, common scurvy grass Cochlearia officinalis, spear leaved orache Atriplex prostrata and sea purslane Atriplex portulacoides. High level sheep grazed marshes carry populations of the …

Mucking Flats and Marshes

…ane Atriplex portulacoides, with sea aster Aster tripolium, common sea lavender Limonium vulgare and common saltmarsh grass Puccinellia maritima. Fragments of lower saltmarsh include glasswort Salicornia spp., common cordgrass Spartina anglica and lesser sea spurrey Spergularia m…

Severn Estuary

… for an uncommon middle marsh community, which is characterised by sea lavender Limonium vulgare and thrift Armeria maritima. Prominent species on the upper marsh are red fescue Festuca rubra and saltmarsh rush Juncus gerardi. Nationally scarce species occurring on the upper mars…

Yar Estuary

…minating the wetter, lower marsh. Associated plant species include sea lavender Limonium vulgare, sea spurrey Spergularia media, sea blite Suaeda maritima and glass wort Salicornia species. At lower marsh levels the sward becomes dominated by cord grass and is less diverse. At th…

Minsmere-Walberswick Heaths and Marshes

…nated by sea purslane Atriplex portulacoides, but also composed of sea lavender Limonium vulgare, sea aster Aster tripolium and common cord grass Spartina anglica fringes the southern shore of the estuary. Other saltmarsh species include glasswort Salicornia spp., sea rush Juncus…

Medway Estuary and Marshes

…flora. The most abundant plants include sea aster Aster tripolium, sea lavender Limonium vulgare, cord grass Spartina anglica and saltmarsh grass Puccinellia maritima, but among the many others are several scarce species such as golden samphire Inula crithmoides*, perennial glass…

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