Part of the South Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, the Wembury Point to Erme Estuary IPA comprises approximately 15 km of cliff-dominated coastline, to the east of Plymouth Sound, including the mouth of the River Yealm. Low cliffs rise to 50 m, with adjacent cliff slopes up to 100 m in height. This small site supports several important and rare vascular plants. Localised freshwater seepage onto raised beach platforms along the base of the cliffline provides the ideal habitat for the internationally-rare shore dock, here in its second largest rocky shoreline colony in the UK. This stretch of the south Devon coast includes four sites for shore dock and, at the mouths of the rivers Tamar and the Yealm, the now scarce eelgrass. Dotted sedge occurs at its only Devon site at Wadham Rocks.
Plantlife - Wembury Point to Erme Estuary IPA
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