Photographs: Co. Cork

Sea Mayweed Tripleurospermum maritimum s.s. Lus Bealtaine mara Family: Asteraceae Flowering: July-September. Annual / perennial. Native. White flowers with yellow centres, the achenes with elongated oil-glands. The succulent, fine-cut leaflets are blunt or rounded at tips. A very variable plant, the stems either hairless or sparsely hairy and erect or procumbent in growth habit. Height/spread 20-60cm. Grows around most Irish coasts on sand or shingle, waste ground, coastal walls and the margins of saltmarshes. Similar: Scentless Mayweed, Tripleurospermum inodorum

Sea Mayweed, Tripleurospermum maritimum s.s, Lus Bealtaine mara