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Design
By Nature - wildflowers.ie - Irish Wildflowers 
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Species Datapage No
4
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You may
click on most photographs to enlarge. *Denotes a Naturalised
species
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| Species Common Name: Brooklime
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| Species Botanical Name: Veronica
beccabunga
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This wonderful plant is a must for any flowing stream or
riverside, will also control erosion on reservoir banks.
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Brooklime is a common plant of damp places. Ducks enjoy this plant
and is also good for sheltering minnows and newly hatched fish.
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| Reported
as edible, SC has eaten it, but ! is it worth it?
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| Management: Persistence,
keep soil bare of weeds as in riverside, |
| Tolerance
of cutting: None, except end of season
management |
| Cutting
time: None |
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Edible /
Medicinal: Reported as Edible, I have eaten it but it
was years ago and I honestly forget
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Life Cycle (Form):
Perennial
Flower Height:
5 to 10 cm
Foliage Height:
1 - 5 cm
Flower Colour:
Blue, sometimes Pink or White (rarely)
Flowering period: July, August,
Time to Flower:
12 months, rapid from
Planteens Soil Type:
Most, best in deep wet rich soil. Riversides
pH Type:
Acid, Neutral, Alkaline
Moisture:
Moist, Wet.
Aspect:
Shade to full sun,
Wildlife Value: Medium, Bees and frogs as well as water snails.
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| Species Common Name: Bulbous
Buttercup
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| Species Botanical Name: Ranunculus
bolbosus
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buttercup of light soils and sandy places, difficult for us to produce
seed
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| Unlike
creeping Buttercup this plants only spreads slowly and mainly by seed.
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| Found
on seashores, as well as sandy light soils or loam.
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| Management:
Dominant in June, persistence in sandy grassland. Keep fertility
poor, |
| Tolerance
of cutting: None, except end of season
management |
| Cutting
time: None |
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Edible /
Medicinal: Do not consume unless
advised. Contains poisons
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Life Cycle (Form): bulbous
perennial
Flower Height:
10 to 30 cm
Foliage Height:
0 - 0 cm
Flower Colour:
.
Flowering period:
March, April, May, June, July, August, September.
Time to Flower:
12 months
Soil Type:
Most, best in deep dry, light and rich soil. Waste Places
pH Type:
Acid, Neutral, Alkaline
Moisture:
Dry, Moist, Wet.
Aspect:
Shade to full sun, frost free
Wildlife Value: Low, Medium, High
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| Species Common Name: Bugle
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Species Botanical Name: Ajuga reptans
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A common woodland, wetland and garden plant with striking
blue flowers in leafy spikes. Grows in wet-woodlands a rare
ecosystem in Ireland
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One of the best flowering plants that we produce for garden customers, a
rapid spreader on moist soils and a good ground cover in light shade,
best planted into damp or wet meadows.
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Bugle is a native species at our Mountain Top nursery and genebank. Summer starts for us as bugle heralds in the march of
flowers in our meadows. I grow it on straw mulches. we plant
it with Yellow Pimpernel.
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| Management:
Moderate persistence in Moist, Neutral wet or slightly peaty grassland.
Keep fertility poor, and keep the grass well maintained |
| Tolerance
of cutting: Good. |
| Cutting
time: Any |
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Edible /
Medicinal:
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Life Cycle (Form): Perennial
Flower Height:
10 to 30 cm
Foliage Height:
2 - 10 cm
Flower Colour:
Blue
Flowering period: April, May, June, July,
Time to Flower:
12 months
Soil Type:
Most, best in deep wet rich soil. Pond Margin Plant
pH Type:
Acid, Neutral,
Moisture:
Moist, Wet.
Aspect:
Shade to full sun,
Wildlife Value: High, Attracts butterflies and bees
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| Species Common Name:
Burdock
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| Species Botanical Name:
Arctium minus
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A great Butterfly plant for a large garden and any Nature Project /
school garden.
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 THE
EDIBLE INNER STEMS OF THIS WONDERFUL PLANT IS SO TASTY THAT YOU WILL
NEVER EAT ASPARAGUS AGAIN.
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WARNING: Sticky Burs, or flowering
seed heads, May irritate
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| Management:
Allow to set seed if wanted, cut in flower if unwanted |
| Tolerance
of cutting: Medium, |
| Cutting
time: |
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Edible /
Medicinal:
EDIBLE Stems, strip outer skin of non flowering stems in
April-May, treat/cook as Asparagus.
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Life Cycle (Form): Biennial.
Flower Height:
30 to 150 cm
Foliage Height:
30 - 50 cm
Flower Colour:
Lilac
Flowering period:
August, September.
Time to Flower:
12 months
Soil Type:
Most, best in deep rich soil. Waste Places, shade and hedgerows
pH Type:
Acid, Neutral, Alkaline
Moisture:
Dry, Moist, Wet.
Aspect:
Shade to full sun.
Wildlife Value: High
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| Species Common Name:
Burnet
Saxifrage
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Species Botanical Name:
Pimpinella saxifraga
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| Management:
Moderate persistence grassland. Keep fertility poor, |
| Tolerance
of cutting: None, except end of season
management |
| Cutting
time: None |
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Edible /
Medicinal:
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Burnet
Saxifrage is the white flower growing here on an Esker
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Life Cycle (Form): Perennial
Flower Height:
30 to 50 cm
Foliage Height:
10 - 20 cm
Flower Colour:
White
Flowering period: July, August, September.
Time to Flower:
12 months
Soil Type:
Best in dry, light and sandy poor soil. Waste Places and gravel
pits
pH Type: Neutral, Alkaline
Moisture:
Dry,
Aspect:
Full sun.
Wildlife Value: Low,
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