Photographs: Barleycove, Co.Cork |
Parsley Water-Dropwort White flowers in 7-12 slender-rayed terminal umbels. Usually bracts and bracteoles present. Egg-shaped fruit, styles shorter than fruit. Lower leaves twice-pinnate, soon withering. Stem leaves pinnate with narrow linear leaf segments. Cylindrical tubers develop from stem base. Slender solid stems, sometimes slightly hollow with age. Height: 30-100cm. Mainly coastal. Salt-marshes, rough grassland. Can be locally frequent. |
Above: Parsley Water-dropwort. Barleycove, Co.Cork. August 2007