Alexanders (Smyrnium olusatrum)

Plants with white flowers
Common Scurvy Grass	Danish Scurvy Grass
Prickly Saltwort	Rock Samphire
Sea Aster	Sea Mouse-ear
Brookweed	Sea Campion
Sea Carrot	Sea Kale
Sea Rocket	Dewberry
Burnet Rose	White Rock-rose
Wood Sage	Glasswort

Plants with yellow flowers
Evening Primrose	Common Rock-rose
Hoary Rock-rose	Golden Samphire
Yellow Horned Poppy	Field Fleawort
Silver Ragwort	Sea purslane
Wild Cabbage	Black Mustard
Bird's Foot Trefoil	Sea Wormwood
Yellow Stonecrop

Plants with red or pink flowers
Beach Rose	Greater Sea Spurrey
Red Valerian	Common Storksbill
Sand Spurrey	Hares Foot Clover
Sea Bindweed	Sea Pink
Hounds Tongue	Common Centaury
Spear-leaved Orache	Tree Mallow

Plants with blue or purple flowers
Common Sea Lavender	Rock Sea Lavender
Vernal Squill	Sea Holly
Sheep's Bit	Dune Pansy

Plants with green or brown flowers
Sea Beet	Sea Spurge
Alexanders	Sea Plantain

Grasses & Shrubs
Marram Grass	Lyme Grass
Cord Grass	Sea Buckthorn
Creeping Willow

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Alexanders is a very common plant along coastal paths and lanes in Wales, which becomes more common towards the west. The pale yellow-green flowers are in umbels and can be seen in Spring, although this one was photographed in late February. The trifoliate leaves are a glossy dark green. Also seen along hedgerows, particularly on limestone soils near the coast. It reaches a height of 4 to 5 feet.