Wildflowers in the Kingsbridge area
It was glorious to get out and about with Mike in the sunshine in the campervan after lockdown! The area we visited was in the South Devon Area Of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB).
![mike campervan](https://photographingwildflowers.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/mike-campervan-600x450.jpg)
We stayed just outside Kingsbridge so had a walk across a few fields to get into town, and found that it’s on a gorgeous inlet.
![kingsbridge pub sept 2020](https://photographingwildflowers.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/kingsbridge-pub-sept-2020-600x450.jpg)
Spotted on the walk into town: Common toadflax – Linaria vulgaris and Mexican fleabane – Erigeron karvinskianus.
![common toadflax linaria vulgaris kingsbridge devon sept 2020](https://photographingwildflowers.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/common-toadflax-linaria-vulgaris-kingsbridge-devon-sept-2020-e1613924936231-450x600.jpg)
The Mexican fleabane was common along the side of the road in Kingsbridge.
![Mexican fleabane erigeron karvinskianus kingsbridge sept 2020](https://photographingwildflowers.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Mexican-fleabane-erigeron-karvinskianus-kingsbridge-sept-2020-600x450.jpg)
Another day we walked along the coast from Bantham Beach to South Milton Sands.
![devon coastline sept 2020](https://photographingwildflowers.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/devon-coastline-sept-2020-600x450.jpg)
![thurleston beach sept 2020](https://photographingwildflowers.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/thurleston-beach-sept-2020-600x450.jpg)
Spotted on the walk: Sea pink / Thrift – Armeria maritima, Sea carrot – Daucus carota ssp gummifer, and Red campion – Silene dioica. Initially I thought that the Sea carrot might be Moon carrot – Seseli libanotis which I’ve seen in Seaford and is very similar, but it turns out that it doesn’t grow in this area. Conversely, Sea carrot doesn’t grow in my part of Sussex according to the SBRS Flora of Sussex.
![sea pink armeria maritima thurleston devon sept 2020](https://photographingwildflowers.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/sea-pink-armeria-maritima-thurleston-devon-sept-2020-600x450.jpg)
![sea carrot daucus carota ssp gummifer thurlestone devon sept 2020](https://photographingwildflowers.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/sea-carrot-daucus-carota-ssp-gummifer-devon-sept-2020-scaled-e1617467654105.jpg)
![red campion silene dioica thurlestone hedgerow sept 2020](https://photographingwildflowers.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/red-campion-silene-dioica-thurlestone-hedgeron-sept-2020-e1613925371129-450x600.jpg)
Read more about campions and thrift.
We also went in our campervan to Chertsey in Surrey and Marden in Kent in 2020.