Irish wildflowers sitemap
Photographs: Ballingeary, Co.Cork 
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Lousewort Pink flowers. Upper hooded lip slightly curved, 2-toothed. Calyx is hairless, 5-angled with 4 leafy lobes. Many stems growing from base of plant. Leaves pinnate, glabrous. Semi-parasitic. Height: 10-20cm. Common on damp heaths, upland grasslands, bogs. Similar: Irish Lousewort, P. sylvatica ssp. hibernica. Hairy calyx. Marsh Lousewort, P. palustris 
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