Buck’s Horn Plantain / Spring / Summer / Autumn / Edible Common Names Stagshorn plantain, Minutina Botanical Name Plantago coronopus Scientific Classification Kingdom – Plantae Order –Lamiales Family – Plantaginaceae Physical Characteristics The whole plant rarely grows more than 10cm tall. Leaves Hairy leaves growing in a basal rosette. Each…
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Nori / Spring / Summer / Autumn / Winter / Edible Common Names Sometimes called Laver (not strictly correct, but they are very similar) Botanical Name Pyropia yezoensis, californica, tenera and other species. Note that Laver is in the Porphyria genus, but the seaweeds in each are often reclassified. Scientific…
Irish Moss Seaweed /Autumn / Winter / Spring / Edible Note: You may have heard more about Carrageenan than about Irish Moss, and you may be surprised to find controversial material after googling carrageenan! Irish Moss is the seaweed from which the fibre/carbohydrate carrageenan is extracted. The information below relates…
Serrated Wrack / Spring / Summer / Autumn / Winter / Edible Common Names Toothed wrack, Saw wrack Botanical Name Fucus serratus Scientific Classification Kingdom – Chromista Order –Fucales Family – Fucaceae Habitat Found mostly on hard substrata low on the shore, especially on more sheltered coasts. They are found…
Channel Wrack / Spring / Summer / Autumn / Winter / Edible Common Names Channel Wrack Botanical Name Pelvetia canaliculata Scientific Classification Kingdom – Chromista Order –Fucales Family – Fucaceae Habitat Channel wrack is one of the first wracks that you tend to find as you move from land to…
Sea Lettuce / Spring / Summer / Autumn / Winter / Edible Common Names Sea lettuce, Sea Salad Botanical Name Ulva lactuca Scientific Classification Kingdom – Plantae Order –Ulvales Family – Ulvaceae Habitat Found growing on rocks and in sandy rockpools. It prefers sheltered areas. A very commonly found…
Bladderwrack / Spring / Summer / Autumn / Winter / Edible Common Names Rockweed, Seawrack Botanical Name Fucus vesiculosus Scientific Classification Kingdom – Chromista Order –Fucales Family – Fucaceae Habitat This seaweed likes to be between the high and low watermarks, spending a fair amount of time submerged. Found across…
Sugar Kelp / Spring / Summer / Autumn / Winter / Edible Common Names Sea-belt, Sugar Wrack Botanical Name Laminaria saccharina, Saccharina latissima Scientific Classification Kingdom – Chromista Order –Laminariales Family – Laminariaceae Habitat This seaweed is fond of low water, sheltered areas with fast-moving flows. It dislikes exposed…
Kelp / Spring / Summer / Autumn / Winter / Edible Common Names Kelp refers to a group of brown seaweeds that have a very sturdy, handlike holdfast, a long stipe (stalk), long fronds and a tendency to grow in dense clumps that look like underground forests in the…
Pepper Dulse / Spring / Summer / Autumn / Winter / Edible Common Names Pepper dulse, Truffle of the Sea Botanical Name Osmundea pinnatifida Scientific Classification Kingdom – Plantae Order –Ceramiales Family – Rhodomelaceae Habitat Pepper Dulse likes rocky shores a little further towards the water than the wracks, but…