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Artemisia maritima Sea Wormwood

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Sea Wormwood is a distinctive plant of sea walls and the drier pats of the upper Saltmarsh, often growing in isolated clusters. The white-woolly leaves are more or less 2-pinnate with relatively long linear segments and have a strong, but pleasant aromatic, worwood smell when crushed.  It is widespread in Britain and occasional to locally frequent on saltmarshes in West Glamorgan. 

Native

Also known as Seriphidium maritimum (L.) Poljacov

Artemisia maritima - © Barry Stewart
Artemisia maritima - © Barry Stewart