Irish wildflowers sitemap
Photographs: Ballingeary, Co.Cork 
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Short-fruited Willowherb Pink-purple 4-petalled flowers with notched petals, club-shaped stigma. Lower leaves opposite, upper alternate. Oval-lanceolate, un-stalked, toothed. Stems with 4 raised ridges. Elongated runners produced in summer. Slightly hairy. Frequent. Neutral to slightly acidic soils. Moist woodland, stream edges, marshes, walls, waste ground. Similar: Square-stalked Willowherb, E. tetragonum. Rare in Ireland. 
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