Beyond the sweep of the tide, where the plant life of the sea ends, the land's plant life begins, often at the foot of a tall cliff. There, among jumbled rocks, constantly washed by spray, grows samphire.
It has roots that anchor the plant in cracks in the rocks. Samphire has fleshy, bluish-green stems, and clusters of tiny, whitish flowers.
Golden samphire is quite different plant. But it still has the same kind of thick, fleshy, very narrow leaves. Like ordinary samphire, it grows, among spray-splashed rocks and also in the salt marshes along the coasts. Its tightly packed, golden flower-heads are 1 inch across, and gleam in the sunshine. Each flower is made up of many flowers in one.
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