Tripolium pannonicum seed

LATIN NAME: Tripolium pannonicum

COMMON NAME: Sea Aster

The sea aster is a handsome, upright, branching, perennial herb of the salt marshes and the coast, and its fine, narrow, fleshy leaves and its fine, flat-topped clusters of the many small, daisy-like flowers with the pale-blue or violet ray petals and the yellow centres have made it a treasured and fine plant of the coast. It grows as an upright, branching, perennial herb, reaching up to one metre or so, with the many upright, branching stems bearing the alternate, narrow, fleshy, pointed leaves and, through the late summer, the fine, flat-topped clusters of the many small, daisy-like flowers with the pale-blue or violet ray petals and the yellow centres, followed by the small, dry, many-seeded fruits. It is a species of the flowering herb in the daisy family, and it is native to the salt marshes and the coasts of the Europe and the surrounding regions, while it is treasured for its fine, daisy-like flowers, and it is known as the sea aster.

In the daisy family it is the violet aster of the salt marshes, a plant that flowers late in the year where the ground is salty and the sea wind blows.

Scientific Research & Plant Biotechnology

The sea aster holds a place in the salt-marsh ecology papers of Europe, and the botanists have mapped its place in the daisy family and the coastal flora. The study of its fine ways of living in the salty ground has drawn the attention of the ecologists of the salt-tolerant plants, and the insect ecologists have counted the bees and the many insects on the late, violet flower heads. It is a plant of the coastal, generous kind, and the growers of the coastal garden keep it in their catalogues.

Ecological & Economic Value & Wide Applications

In the coastal garden, the sea aster is the violet daisy of the late summer. Its flat-topped clusters feed the bees and the insects of the season, and the branching, leafy growth gives the border a fine, soft presence. It has served the salt marsh and the wildflower border, and it grows well in the moist, gritty ground of the open, sunny spot. Violet, daisy-flowered and late-blooming.

These are willing seeds — sprinkle them over the surface of pots of gritty, free-draining soil and just press them in without covering them, since they like a little light, keep the pots in a bright, open spot and water them gently, and they’ll be up before long.

Sea Aster