Greater Sea Spurrey (Spergularia media)
| 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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The Greater Sea Spurrey is a straggling five-petalled flower of salt-marshes, estuaries and beaches, occasionally also found alongside roads which are salted in winter. The leaves are linear and fleshy, and the petals are pale pink at the edges and white in the centre. Flowering period is June to September, height up to about 6 inches. Similar to the Lesser Sand Spurrey, but more upright, the petals are usually longer than the sepals and paler pink in colour.