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OYSTERPLANT Mertensia maritima (Boraginaceae) Prostrate. Spreading plant found on stony beaches, around the high-tide mark. Shetland and Orkney are the best British locations for the species and it is very locally common. It can be recognised by its fleshy, blue-green leaves and bell-shaped flowers that are pink in bud but soon turn blue (June-Aug).
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OYSTERPLANT Mertensia maritima (Boraginaceae) Prostrate. Spreading plant found on stony beaches, around the high-tide mark. Shetland and Orkney are the best British locations for the species and it is very locally common. It can be recognised by its fleshy, blue-green leaves and bell-shaped flowers that are pink in bud but soon turn blue (June-Aug).