Irish wildflowers sitemap
Photos: The Gearagh, Co.Cork 
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Creeping Jenny Solitary cup-shaped yellow flowers growing in leaf axils. Broad-triangular sepals. Flower stalks about same length as leaves. Leaves round or bluntly oval, hairless, short-stalked. Evergreen. Creeping stems, rooting at lower nodes. Rarely sets seed, but can spread rapidly from fragments of root. Habitat: Damp soils near water, also woods, shaded hedges, damp grassland. Probably native in south, but possibly introduced in north of Ireland. Similar: Yellow Pimpernel, L. nemorum. Narrower pointed leaves, smaller open yellow flowers. Prefers dryer ground. 
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Photograph above: Near Macroom, County Cork. July 2007.
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