Irish wildflowers sitemap
Photographs: County Cork 
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Fools Water-cress Short-stalked umbels of small white flowers, usually 3-15 rays. Ovoid fruit, longer than wide with thick ridges. No bracts, numerous bracteoles. Leaves pinnate. Toothed, lobed oval leaflets. Hairless. Hollow stems. Semi-erect or creeping, rooting at lower nodes. Height: To 80 cm. Frequent in bare muddy places, ditches, streams, by lakes, rivers. Similar: Lesser Water-parsnip, Berula erecta 
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Above: Fools Water-cress. Garinish Beach, County Cork. July "008