Photographs: Co. Cork

Bog Stitchwort Stellaria uliginosa Tursarraing mhóna Family: Caryophyllaceae Flowering time: June-September. Perennial. Native. The small white flowers have sepals longer than the deeply divided petals. The pointed oval-lanceolate leaves are grey-green and un-stalked but the non-flowering shoots have stalked leaves. A hairless plant with weak, straggling, square stems, to 25cm. Often in acidic soils on damp ground in wet woods and by pond edges Similar: Lesser Stitchwort, Stellaria graminea has longer, narrower leaves and petals equal in length to sepals.

Bog Stitchwort, Stellaria alsine, Tursarraing mhóna