Irish wildflowers sitemap
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Procumbent Pearlwort Tiny flowers with 4 or sometimes 5 greenish sepals but usually no petals. Very low growing central leaf rosette, long rooting runners bearing flowers. Linear leaves, pointed at ends. Height: 3-5 cm Widespread and often abundant. Bare or trampled ground. Paths, lawns, waste ground, hedgebanks, walls. Also mountain flushes, on rocks in rivers, forest rides. Similar: Heath Pearlwort, S. subulata. Small white flowers with 5 petals more/less equal in length to sepals. Flowering June-August. Occasional near N, W, SW coasts. 
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Photographs above: Ballingeary, Co.Cork. May 2007
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