Irish wildflowers sitemap
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Trailing Tormentil Solitary yellow flowers, 4 or 5 petals. Usually 20+ carpels. Leaves usually tri-foliate, can also be palmate. Shorter stalk on upper leaves, lower leaves longer stalked. Persistent basal rosette. Trailing stems, rooting at tips. Spread: To 80 cm. Frequently hybridises with Tormentil, P. erecta. Fairly frequent. Paths, banks, roadsides. Similar: Creeping Cinqeufoil, P. reptans. 5-petalled flowers and 5-toothed leaflets. 
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Photographs above: Dirk Bay, Cloakilty, Co.Cork. September 2007