Sea thrift
Armeria maritima or sea thrift, is a species of flowering plant. The British threepence coin issued between 1937 and 1952 had a design of thrift on the reverse. In British slang, thrifty means to have bought a lot for very little money and the phrase is thought to be the reason why thrift was used as the emblem for the threepence coin. Thrift is a halophyte – a plant adapted to life in saline conditions that would kill many other species.
