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Calcareous: Containing free calcium carbonate, chalky.
Capitulum: A compound flower head, consisting of many tightly packed flowers. (a type of inflorescence, the reproductive shoot of the plant, which bears flowers).
Dune-slacks: Depressions between sand dunes that are often wet during the winter.
Inflorescence: The reproductive shoot of a plant, which bears a group or cluster of flowers.
Perennial: Plants that live for at least three seasons; after an initial period they produce flowers once a year.