Irish wildflowers BSBI map

Sea Wormwood, Seriphidium maritimum, Liath na trá
Photographs: Aughinish, Co. Limerick

Sea Wormwood
Seriphidium maritimum (Artemisia maritima)
Liath na trá
Family: Asteraceae

Flowering: August-October. Perennial. Native.

Leafy panicles of very small egg-shaped orange/yellow flowers. The aromatic leaves are downy, pale whitish grey-green and 2-3x pinnately-lobed. Lower leaves wither before flowering time. Erect, spreading growth with many non-flowering leafy shoots. Height 30-80cm.

Rare, very local distribution on the east and west Irish coasts growing on sea walls and drier areas of muddy or rocky salt-marshes.

Sea Wormwood, Seriphidium maritimum, Liath na trá

Sea Wormwood, Seriphidium maritimum, Liath na trá
Sea Wormwood, Seriphidium maritimum (Artemisia maritima), Liath na trá

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