Blue green mar ram grass, white daisies, scarlet pimpernel, pink storks bill, yellow birds foot trefoil, silver-veined blue-grey leaves of sea holly; flowers of the seashore speckled the dunes with colour.

Sea Holly or sea holly may refer to:

Eryngium planum (flat sea holly), is a species of flowering plant in the family Apiaceae, native to central and southeastern Europe to central Asia.

Different plants may be found on the sand dunes near the town, e.g. leymus, heather, crowberry, sea hollies, and marsh gentians.

Until the 1970s, the rare sea holly could still be seen in the dunes.

Then you'll go to the Chelsea Flower Show and want every euphorbia and tree fern and luminous blue sea holly that winks at you inside the tent.

The salt marshes are a breeding area for the pied avocet and terns as well as a habitat for the sea holly and sea lavender that bloom in summer.

Its catalog lists 17 eryngiums, or sea hollies, whose steely gray or blue thimble-shaped flower heads, often surrounded by conspicuous spiky bracts, are great in arrangements.

Eryngium bourgatii (Mediterranean sea holly) is a species of flowering plant in the family Apiaceae, native to the Pyrenees.

Common names include sea holly (though not related to true hollies Ilex) and eryngo, the former typically being applied to coastal species, and the latter to grassland species.