Revere Beach -- plus -- plant id help?

[urbpan]

An unknown succulent plant on the beach.





Any guesses?



I saw a gull eating something and I had to see what it was--it was a dead dogfish!



Their egg-cases were all over the beach, but I hadn't seen the animal in person before.

Comments

[ankhanu.livejournal.com]

That could be glasswort or something similar. I'm forgetting my dune plants though, it's been a while.

The dogfish is definately an interesting find :)

[candent.livejournal.com]

It kind of looks like Trailing Ice Plant.

[droserary.livejournal.com]

oh gosh, the dogfish comes back to haunt me. We dissected one in freshman bio. We got, um, very close to the beast:


Lab partner Stacey looks on as Eileen forges a relationship with the lab project.

[abearius.livejournal.com]

It looks like someting we in California call "Pickleweed"

plant id

[pycnanthemum.livejournal.com]

I think that plant is Cakile edulenta, also known as sea rocket (mustard family).

[(Anonymous)]

http://www.glaucus.org.uk/Mermaid.htm

...Mermaid's Purses, containing the eggs or young of the Lesser-spotted Dogfish...