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Columbine / Granny's Bonnets Nodding, spurred flowers, purple-blue, occasionally white. 5 petals, 5 petal-like sepals. Sticky-hairy fruit. Leaves twice-trifoliate, lobed leaflets. Height: 35-80cm. Prefers calcareous ground. Rare native in central Ireland. Found as introduced garden escape on roadsides, waste ground, walls. |
Columbine. Garden escape, Inchigeela, Co.Cork. June 2008