In the first strip there is beach vegetation where species linked to the sea and affected by the tides are. These are the European searocket, the sea sandwort and poligonum maritimum.
The first group of dunes is the one situated closest to the coast. This area is exposed to the sea action and in contact with the waves. The elytrigia juncea has long strong roots which allows it to attach to the substrate counterbalancing the action of the waves and the wind. It could gather some sand around it. There are other species as the Sea holly and the shore bindweed.
The second group of dunes forms the second plant strip. They are mobile though more stable. They will attach a great deal of the substrate using it as sand supplies. This contributes to the beach balance.
Constant moving system because of the sea and wind which erode and at the same time allow their appearance. There are species such as the European beachgrass, Otanthus (a genus of flowering plants in the daisy family), the shore bindweed, the sea spurge, sea daffodil, the spiny thrift - herba de namorar and the camariña in Muxieiro.
The next stripe is the furthest from the sea. It´s the third dune system, where both salinity and wind are weaker and for this reason there are more plant species such as the curry plant, artemisia crithmifolia ó campestris, camariña and the spiny thrift.
