This is a very common garden plant used for edging borders typically with blue lobelia. Over the last thirty years in particular this Southern European introduction has escaped into the countryside and is comfortably naturalised at many seaside sites where it spreads in large mats. The flower heads are usually speherical made up of many tiny crucifer florets. When in full flower you can hardly see the leaves at all.
Red Rocks, Wirral 29th September 2004
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Added on Decmber 3rd 2004