Irish wildflowers BSBI map

Sea Aster, Tripolium pannonicum, Luibh bhléine
Photographs: Co. Clare and Co. Cork

Sea Aster
Tripolium pannonicum (Aster tripolium)
Luibh bhléine
Family: Asteraceae

Flowering time: July-October. Short-lived perennial. Native.

Clusters of blue, pale mauve or occasionally white flowers with yellow centres. Leaves are fleshy and more/less untoothed, the basal leaves stalked, the stem leaves narrower and linear-lanceolate. An erect, branched, hairless plant, the stems sometimes reddish. Height usually 20-100cm but plants to 2m. tall recorded in Waterford.

Mainly coastal on salt-marshes and estuary banks, also grows among rocks and on cliffs

Sea Aster, Tripolium pannonicum, Luibh bhléine

Sea Aster, Tripolium pannonicum, Luibh bhléine
Sea Aster, Tripolium pannonicum, Luibh bhléine

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