Common Rock-rose (Helianthemum nummularium)
| 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 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 | |
|---|---|
| Marram Grass | Lyme Grass |
| Cord Grass | Sea Couch Grass |
| Trees & Shrubs | |
|---|---|
| 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.