Irish wildflowers sitemap
Photographs: Bantry, Co.Cork 
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Alexanders Yellow-green flowers in many-rayed umbels. Shiny dark green leaves, triple trifoliate basal leaves with stalked leaflets. Stout hairless plant, celery-scented. Height: to 120cm Habitat: Usually coastal, waste ground, roadsides, cliffs. Widespread, established. Most frequent S and E coast. Similar: Wild Parsnip, Pastinaca sativa. The only other yellow-flowered umbellifer. Rough, hairy stems and leaves, once pinnate. Poisonous sap. Very rare in Ireland, calcareous soils. 
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Photographs: May 2007 Bantry, Co.Cork.
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