Irish wildflowers sitemap
Photographs: County Waterford 
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Sweet-briar Bright-pink flowers followed by scarlet hips with some stalked glands. Sepals with some lobes, spreading-erect, usually persisting. Undersides of leaves with apple-scented glands, hairs on veins. Curved prickles. Strong erect stems, 1-2m. Found on calcareous ground, in hedgerows and scrub. Rare, widespread but scattered distribution in Ireland. Identification by Paul Green 
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Sweet-briar. County Waterford
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