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… and sand dunes. The area is also important for species, including oyster plant Mertensia maritima and common seal Phoca vitulina. Tyrella and Minerstown is notable for its intertidal rock and sand communities. The intertidal area is characteristic of the south Lecale coastline. …

Sands of Forvie and Ythan Estuary

…ns, with a small area of low-marsh marked by common saltmarsh-grass Puccinellia maritima, seablite Suaeda maritima and glasswort Salicornia species. The beds of common reed Phragmites australis are the largest in any estuary in Aberdeenshire. Stands of sea club-rush Bolboschoenus…

East Sanday Coast

… important sites for coastal vascular plants. The nationally scarce oysterplant Mertensia maritima grows on the foreshore and the nationally scarce curved sedge Carex maritima and northern yellow-cress Rorippa islandica grow locally throughout the site. Part of East Sanday Coast…

Back Bay to Carghidown

… such as Bithynian vetch Vicia bithynica, yellow vetch V. lutea and oysterplant Mertensia maritima. The shingle banks are colonised by a number of plants almost entirely restricted in their distribution to shingle beaches. These include sea spurge Euphorbia paralias, Portland spu…

Mournes Coast

…ops and shingle. Rock faces subject to sea spray have occasional thrift Armeria maritima, sea plantain Plantago maritima and sea spleenwort Asplenium marinum. Strandline communities are extensively developed along the shore south of William’s Harbour. Maritime grassland occurs ov…

Pentland Firth Islands

…ia heslop-harrisonii, together with three nationally scarce species oysterplant Mertensia maritima and the pondweeds Potamogeton friesii and Potamogeton filiformis, occur.

Cullen to Stake Ness Coast

…up to 70 m wide, as at Old Hythe. These are the habitat of the rare oysterplant Mertensia maritima. In several areas, such as on Whyntie Head, salt spray influences have created salt marshes on the raised beaches. At Stake Ness these influences are combined with freshwater inflow…

South Coast of Arran

…nity towards the shore. The pioneer community supports a colony of oyster plant Mertensia maritima which is one of the largest in south-west Scotland. To the west of Auchenhew the SSSI includes maritime cliffs and slopes that support a diverse flora, including locally uncommon pl…

Culbin Sands, Culbin Forest and Findhorn Bay

…-east Scotland, includes low marsh characterised by saltmarsh grass Puccinellia maritima and transitions to sand dune. Plants The wide variety of habitats supports a diverse flora with over 550 species of flowering plants recorded. A number of nationally or regionally rare or sca…

Ballantrae Shingle Beach

…th a notable feature being a large colony of the Nationally Scarce oyster plant Mertensia maritima.

South Walney and Piel Channel Flats

…d and other organic material enables dense strands of sea beet Beta vulgaris sp maritima, sea kale Crambe maritima, curled dock Rumex crispus and sea campion Silene uniflora to grow on the back of the storm ridge. The spit at the end of South End Haws supports one of the richest …

Traeth Pensarn

…Glaucium flavum, curled dock Rumex crispus and the locally rare sea kale Crambe maritima. Regularly associated with these are plants such as sea fern-grass Catapodium marinum, sea beet Beta vulgaris ssp. maritima, sea campion Silene uniflora and sea mayweed Tripleurospermum marit…

Rathlin Island - Coast

…scoticum, juniper Juniperus cornmunis, roseroot Rhodolia rosea and oyster plant Mertensia maritima. Towards the south and east the coastline is more gentle giving rise to areas of maritime grassland and flushes. Small developing saltmarshes are widespread. The uncommon saltmarsh …

Torrs to Mason's Walk

…lat stones and shingle supporting such rare and localised plants as oysterplant Mertensia maritima, sea-kale and sea radish. The base of the cliffs has developed small areas of saltmarsh with lax-flowered sea-lavender Limonium humile; base-rich grassland with yellow-vetch, hare’s…

Giant's Causeway and Dunseverick

…fluence down slope to the shore. Notable shoreline species include oyster plant Mertensia maritima and saltmarsh flat-sedge Blysmus rufus while Scot's lovage Ligusticum scoticum, although sparsely present throughout the site, is more frequent along the shore. Scree is widespread …

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