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Eryngium maritimum

Perennial

HomePerennialEryngium maritimum

Sea shores, preferring sand and shingle whilst avoiding acid soils.

Family: Apiaceae
Height: 0.5 m / 2 ft
Sun
Light, Medium Soil
Dry to Moist

Plant Rating

Edible Uses: 3 of 5
Medicinal Uses: 3 of 5
Other Uses: 2 of 5

Native Habitat

Sea Holly, Seaside eryngo Eryngium maritimum native habitat is Sea shores, preferring sand and shingle whilst avoiding acid soils.

Edible Uses

Young shoots - cooked. They are normally blanched by excluding light from the growing plant, and are then used as an asparagus substitute. They are said to be palatable and nourishing. Root - cooked. Used as a vegetable or candied and used as a sweetmeat. Palatable and nutritious, it is slightly sweet and smells of carrots. The boiled or roasted roots are said to resemble parsnips or chestnuts in flavour.

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