Stiffkey Marshes



Sea Lavender (Limonium vulgare)
White stamens and branching above the middle of the stem.


Sea Wormwood (Artemisia maritima)













Limonium Sp?
Is this Limonium anglicum?
Salthouse



Common Mallow (Malva sylvestris)
Red-legged Spider Wasp (Episyron rufipes) excavating




Dewberry (Rubus caesius)
Sp?
Black- banded Spider Wasp (Anoplius viaticus) excavating


Great Willow Herb (Epilobium hirsutum)

Lesser Sea Spurrey (Spergularia maratima)
Moth Sp?
Sea Beet (Beta vulgaris subsp maritima)




Much as I enjoy the sight of the flag like stalks of the Cordgrass (Sporobous anglicus) at this time of year.
Reading the Wikipedia entry for this species, if the information is correct, this species has done a huge amount of damage to salt marsh species around the world.
Thornham & Holme



Duke of Argyll's Tea Tree (Lycium barbarum)
Moon Jellyfish (Aurelia aurita)


Columnar Rust on Shrubby Sea Blite (Sueda vera)
Five petals and five stamens (Tamarisk gallica)






Sea Lavender (Limonium vulgare) x Lax Flowered Lavender (Limonium humile)
Limonium x neumanii
Holme Beach

Saltmarsh - Holme

Ergot (Claviceps pupurea) ? on Marram Grass (Ammophila arenaria)

Carline Thistle (Carlina acaullis)

Wild Garlic (Allium vineale)

Hieracium Sp?













Intermediate Sea Lavender (Limonium intercedens)




Matted Sea Lavender (Limonium bellidifolium)

To finally see a lugworm - Amazing
There are two species that live in the sand Arenicola marina (Blow Lug) and Arenicola defodiens (Black Lug)
It's all in the casts and I didn't look close enough so which species??
But because this one was unusually on the surface it is recognisable as Blow Lug (Arenicola marina)
The Marine Life Information network 
Sand Mason Worm tube (Lanice conchilega)




The remains of Holme Timber Circe No 2
The wood dates from 2039 BC
Springer Nature
Holme I (Seahenge) and Holme II: ritual responses to climate change in Early Bronze Age Britain
Saltmarsh - Holme - Thornham
