Irish wildflowers sitemap
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Water-cress Small, white, 4-petalled flowers on erect flowering shoots. Cylindrical fruit with double row of seeds. Pinnate dark-green leaves, leaflets oval. Remain green through winter. Creeping, branched stems, rooting in mud. Water-cress growing in polluted water or areas with sheep may be infected with liver fluke - do not eat. Very frequent. Shallow streams, ditches, muddy places. Similar: Narrow-fruited Water-cress 
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Water-cress. Ballingeary, Co.Cork. October 2007