Irish wildflowers sitemap
Photographs: Foynes, Co.Limerick 
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Water Figwort Flowers small, brownish-red, rounded sepals with white borders. Blunt-tipped, blunt-toothed leaves, often 2 lower lobes. 4-winged square stems. Small bracts. Smooth rhizome without tuber-like swellings. Height: 50-150 cm Similar to Common Figwort, S. nodosa but often more robust. Moist woods, marshes, riversides. Sometimes on dryer ground in West. Frequent S and W Ireland. 
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Photograph above: Near Ballingeary, Co.Cork. October 2007.
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