Rocky shores

Where the shore is composed of rock outcrops, the characteristic species are:

• Silene maritima
• Scilla verna
• Artemisia maritima
• Crithmum maritimum
• Carex distans (in rock crevices)
• Carex extensa (in rock crevices)
• Armeria maritima
• Blysmus rufus (in wet rock crevices)
• Limonium binervosum (at one site only, in Co Down)
• Cochlearia danica
• Cochlearia officinalis
• Spergularia rupicola