Photographs: Mizen Head, Co. Cork

Bog Pimpernel Lysimachia tenella (Anagallis tenella) Falcaire corraigh Family: Primulaceae Flowering time: June-August. Perennial. Native. Small white flowers, but they appear pink because of the crimson veins. The calyx is 5-lobed. The leaves are short-stalked, opposite and broadly-oval or round in shape. A small creeping plant, rooting at the stem nodes. Spread 7-18 cm Found in wet meadows and bogs on damp sand or peat. Abundant in the west but local elsewhere in Ireland.

Bog Pimpernel, Lysimachia tenella (Anagallis tenella), Falcaire corraigh