Irish wildflowers sitemap
Photos: Aughinish, Co.Limerick 
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Small Toadfax Numerous long-stalked small pale-purple flowers, spurred. Auxillary, usually solitary. Linear leaves, grey-green. Small, slender, downy plant. Bushy growth, height to 15cm. Spring-germinating. Well-drained, bare, usually calcareous soils. Previously fairly common on or near railway tracks, decreased due to herbicides. Also on open waste ground and gravel paths, occasionally in cultivated ground. 
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Small Toadfax. Aughinish, County Limerick. August 2008