This very variable plant is found on sea shore and inland but can be either erect or prostrate. It tends to go redder with age.

There is hardly any stretch of coastline in all the British Isles without some of this plant present and it grows extensively inland in England too.

Carickart, Donegal, Ireland 22nd August 2006

Added on 4th January 2007, updated 20th October 2008, updated 1st March 2010