This illustration is an introductory piece to the Beach Strand Habitat section for a Field Guide to Flora of Appledore Island, Maine. It illustrates a small selection of plant species which could be found in a beach strand habitat and based on research of that specific island habitat. The purpose of the work is to show biology students and others interested in identifying the island plant species of a beach strand habitat, the wider view of those plant species before turning the page to search for individual plants that grow in that habitat. The illustration demonstrates not only plant species shape, color, and texture, but also growing patterns and heights as one relates to another.