This spurge is found fairly frequently in dunes near the sea on Anglesey but isn't that common. It flowers in mid summer where the much small and prostrate E. portlandica (Portland Spurge) with which it grows, flowers in the early spring.

E. paralias is entirely coastal as its name suggests and can be found on much of the west facing Great British coastline as far north as the south Ayrshire. It is also found on the east Anglian coast but not much elsewhere on the eastern side of great Britain. It is hardly found at all in mid and northern Scotland and in Ireland most is to be found on the eastern coasts.

Newborough Warren, Anglesey 18th July 2004

Added on January 25th 2005, updated 13th January 2009, updated 30th March 2010