Common Rock-rose (Helianthemum nummularium)
Plants with yellow flowers | |
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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 blue or purple flowers | |
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Common Sea Lavender | Rock Sea Lavender |
Vernal Squill | Sea Holly |
Sheep's Bit | Dune Pansy |
Plants with green or brown flowers | |
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Sea Beet | Sea Spurge |
Alexanders | Sea Plantain |
Grasses | |
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Marram Grass | Lyme Grass |
Cord Grass | Sea Couch Grass |
Trees & Shrubs | |
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Sea Buckthorn | Creeping Willow |
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The brilliant yellow five-petalled flower of the rock-rose grows in calcareous soils, and has a particular liking for the limestone headlands of the Gower Peninsula, often carpeting large areas. The leaves are a dull dark green, lanceolate and downy on the underside. Flowers from May to August.