The sand piles up into huge dunes held together with marram grasses. This site is a national nature reserve and is a wonderful example of dynamic dunes communities where the shifting sands with poor soils and often drying conditions makes the growing conditions for the plants quite challenging. There are also damp hollows with diverse marsh vegetation, including marsh helleborines, that were yet to flower.
Once past the grasping brambles the vegetation opens up with a spectacular show of flowering vetches, particularly restharrow, with evening primroses, Viper's-bugloss and pyramidal orchids:
Common centaury |
Sea bindweed |
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