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| 23rd May 2008, Shell Island, west Welsh Coast, Wales. | Photo: © RWD |
| Grows on sand dunes on the coasts as does the similar Lyme Grass (Leymus arenarius). |
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| 23rd May 2008, Shell Island, west Welsh Coast, Wales. | Photo: © RWD |
| Grows up to 1.2m high in sand dunes, often getting buried by wind-blown sand on the ever-shifting dunes. |
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| 2nd July 2009, dunes, coast, Ainsdale, Sefton. | Photo: © RWD |
| Grows in fairly large masses. |
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| 2nd July 2009, dunes, coast, Ainsdale, Sefton. | Photo: © RWD |
| The leaves are greyish-green and appear very narrow and cylindrical, but are flat leaves which have curled over as usual. |
| Photo: © RWD |
| The flowering spike is dense and often thickest about the middle or slightly lower. The anthers are fawn coloured and are angled outwards or outwards and downwards. |
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| 23rd May 2008, Shell Island, west Welsh Coast, Wales. | Photo: © RWD |
| The leaves of Marram grass are fairly narrow but appear mostly to be almost cylindrical because they curl over. This specimen at the front appears to be starting again after being buried deep into the dry sand with mostly new growth growing on top of buried older growth. |
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| 23rd May 2008, Shell Island, west Welsh Coast, Wales. | Photo: © RWD |
| Leaves curled over. |
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| 9th Aug 2009, dunes, coast, Ainsdale, Sefton. | Photo: © RWD |
| Spent 'flowers' cover the top part of the flower stem with now dried fawn-coloured one-flowered spikelets. |
| 19th Aug 2009, dunes, coast, Crosby, Sefton. | Photo: © RWD |
| The Magic Roundabout. The leaves were being blown around in circles making patterns in the dampish sand. |
| 19th Aug 2009, dunes, coast, Crosby, Sefton. | Photo: © RWD |
| The leaves are quite robust to be able to scour out sand which itself is very robust. Indeed, for both sand and grasses contain resilient silicon dioxide compounds. |
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Hybridizes with : Some similarities to : Lyme Grass (Leymus arenarius) another grass but which is bluish-grey (rather than grey-green for Marram), grows slightly taller to 1.5m (rather than 1.2m for Marram), the leaves are a broad 15mm wide (much narrower for Marram no only because they are in-rolled), spikelets on alternate opposite sides (all around the stem for Marram).
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 Ammophila
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arenaria
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