Ammophila arenaria (marram grass) was introduced to South Africa from Europe as a means of stabilizing the Cape Flats in the 1870s, but was only successfully established in the 1890s as it was found ...

andersdahl65/Getty Images. Marram grass at the beautiful beach near the coastline of the blue sea in northern Denmark.

THE reader who expects under this title to find a dissertation on Psamma arenaria, the marram grass of the coasts of the British Isles, will be disappointed, for the plant is scarcely mentioned.

People are planting marram grass at the dunes of Crantock Beach this week. People are planting marram grass at the dunes of Crantock Beach this week. BBC Homepage. Skip to content; ...

The native American dune grass has a distinctly blue-tinted color and wide leaves. As the weather has improved in recent weeks, regular strolls along trails and beaches have become decidedly more ...

The bunkers at Royal County Down, in Northern Ireland, are famous for their ball-devouring overhangs, which are savagely rimmed with marram grass and may serve as portals to a different dimension.

Nature Notebook: As grasses are pollinated by the wind they do not need the brilliant shades which insect-pollinated plants decorate their reproductive organs ...

Liane Costello, Biodiversity Officer with Clean Coasts, guided the marram grass planting. She highlighted the importance of the plant in dune systems and praised the students’ enthusiasm.

She said: "The dunes are important for wildlife but also to provide a natural defence against increasing storms and rising sea levels. "Planting more marram grass aims to improve biodiversity and ...