Photos: Macroom and Kinsale, Co. Cork

Rue-leaved Saxifrage Saxifraga tridactylites Móran balla Family: Saxifragaceae Flowering time: April-May. Winter annual. Native. The small white flowers with 5 petals are in terminal or axillary cymes. Leaves are fleshy, stalked or stalkless, entire or with 3-5 oblong lobes, the stem leaves smaller and simple. A glandular-hairy plant, usually branched and the leaves and stems are often reddish. Height 2-15cm Mainly found on limestone rocks, in gravel-pits and sandhills and also on walls and pavements in urban areas

Rue-leaved Saxifrage, Saxifraga tridactylites, Móran balla