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Look for this above the high tide line on pebbly beaches or near the seaside where there are stony places. It flowers quite late but is a most beautiful seaside plant. The leaves are glaucous when the plant is mature but light green at first in Spring. Sea Holly is the County Flower of Liverpool (Merseyside) because there are nice ones on the Wirral. The irony of this is that so many people living on the Wirral give their addresses with a CH (Chester) postcode to divorce themselves from the Liverpool association. Botanically Wirral remains part of the Vice County of Cheshire.
Still, a low growing greyish plant which could give you an serious prickling if you sat on it, is still quite an appropriate choice.
Rhosneigr, Anglesey 17th August 2001
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Amended on January 25th 2005