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sea aster

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sea aster
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) a composite perennial plant of salt marshes, Aster tripolium, having yellow and purple flowers like those of the related Michaelmas daisy
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Noun1.sea aster - a common European aster that grows in salt marshessea aster - a common European aster that grows in salt marshes
Aster tripolium, sea starwort
aster - any of various chiefly fall-blooming herbs of the genus Aster with showy daisylike flowers
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Further downstream near Newburn he would surely have delighted in the blue and yellow flowers of sea aster, a coastal plant that colonises the Tyne's banks here.
Country diary by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
Was this robust seaduck homesick for the salt of the nearby estuary - the pole, like everything else at Marshside, has a thin veneer of the stuff - if you don't believe me, try licking a sea aster.
John on country matters.. by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
Japanese knotweed, Himalayan balsam, sea aster, purple clover, evening primrose and ragwort all bloom there, but most of therank vegetation is going over for the year.
Travel: John Dempsey on country matters by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
 
 
 
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