Seasonal Wild Flowers

Golden-samphire

Inula crithmoides

Asteraceae

July to August

It is founfd patchily round the coast in parts of East Anglia,

the Southeast, the South and the Southwest.

See the BSBI distribution map for Golden-samphire

It grows on calcareous, sea cliffs, rocks and grassland.

In the Southeast it grows on saltmarshes.

Golden-samphire is a native, fleshy, perennial herb,

growing up to 1m.

Flowerheads are up to 2.5cm.

Outer florets are golden yellow and inner florets orange

yellow.

Leaves are fleshy, linear, up to 6cm, and inserted all

the way up the stem.

The stem is both fleshy and woody.

The whole plant is quite bushy and dominant in bare rocky

maritime places.

Golden-samphire, Portland, Dorset

In a rock crevice

Flowerheads

Inner and outer florets

Fleshy leaves