Irish wildflowers sitemap
Photographs: The Gearagh Co.Cork 
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Lesser Marshwort Very small umbels, 1-2cm wide, of 2-4 rayed white flowers in leaf axils. Submerged leaves deeply tripinnate, hair-like feathery appearance. Upper leaves with three-lobed or pinnate narrow leaflets. Hairless. More/less prostrate. To 40cm. Shallow water or waterside mud. Decreasing due to habitat loss. Similar: Apium x moorei. Hybrid with Fools Water-cress, A. nodiflorum. Scattered distribution in Ireland. 
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Photographs above: The Gearagh, Co.Cork. October 2007
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