It survives, barely, by eating the stems of Salicornia – the glasswort – a plant that looks a bit like asparagus. Although low in nutrients, the glasswort’s fleshy, succulent sap is filled ...
Plants such as sea aster, glasswort, sea lavender and golden samphire have recolonised the former fields, while nationally scarce shrubby sea blite grows in a raised area of the low-lying land.