Photographs: Co. Cork

Water-crowfoots Ranunculus subgenus Batrachium Néal uisce Family: Ranunculaceae Water-crowfoots can be difficult to identify accurately as there is great variation due to water speeds and hybridisation. They are best separated by comparing the shape of the nectary. All have similar flowers, white with a yellow blotch at petal base and normally 5 petals and 5 sepals and transversely ridged fruit. Stems can have broad-lobed (laminar) normally floating leaves, finely divided submerged (capillary) leaves or a combination of both types (heterophyllus).

Water-crowfoots, Ranunculus subgenus Batrachium