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Hairy Violet Viola hirta Sailchuach ghiobach Family: Violaceae Flowering March-May. Perennial. Native. Unscented pale violet-blue flowers with blunt sepals. There are spreading hairs on the seed-capsules, flower and leaf-stalks. Leaves are hairy, longer than wide and their bases deeply cordate. Stolons are absent, the flowers and leaves growing from a central tuft. Very rare, scattered distribution on the Aran Islands, Co. Clare, Co. Limerick and Co. Dublin on dry calcareous grassland and among limestone rocks.

Hairy Violet, Viola hirta, Sailchuach ghiobach