Irish wildflowers sitemap
Photographs: Killarney, Co.Kerry 
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Lesser Periwinkle Blue flowers, solitary, 5-petalled. Smaller than those of Greater Periwinkle. Leaves in pairs, short-stalked, shiny green, oval. Hairless leaf margins. Prostrate growth habit, rooting stems. Height: to 20cm. Most frequently found in woods, also hedge banks, roadsides. Garden escape, discard or relic of cultivation. Similar: Greater Periwinkle, V. major. Larger, flowers April-May. Introduced. 
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