Purple laver
This purply-brown seaweed is a common feature on our rocky shores and on our dinner plates.
Water vole by Terry Whittaker/2020VISION
This purply-brown seaweed is a common feature on our rocky shores and on our dinner plates.
Also known as the flat topshell, these are one of the most common and colourful sea snails you are likely to see when out on a rockpool safari!
This stocky wader is mostly a winter visitor to the UK, where it can be found on rocky, seaweed-covered coasts, often with groups of turnstones.
Be a nature detective! Can you tick off any of these?
This is probably the most widespread and commonest of the marsh orchids.
Set up a ‘nectar café’ by planting flowers for pollinating insects like bees and butterflies
The early gentian is a rare plant that is only found in the UK. It likes sunny, lowland chalk grasslands, its purple, trumpet-shaped flowers blooming in May and June.
A tall plant, purple-loosestrife can form dense stands of bright purple flower spikes in wet habitats like reedbeds, fens and marshes.