Irish wildflowers sitemap
Photos: Loch Muckanagh, the Burren |
Frogbit White flowers, three-petalled with yellow spot at base of petals. Long stalks raise flowers above water level. Solitary female flowers, male 2-3 in two-bract spathe. Long-stalked, floating leaves, rounded-kidney shaped, papery basal stipules. Free-floating with long runners. Buds overwinter in mud. Ponds, fens, ditches, slow-moving canals. Mainly found in central and E Ireland. |
Frogbit, Hydrocharis morsus-ranae. July 2009
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