Photographs: Barleycove, Co.Cork

Sea Stork's-bill Erodium maritimum Creagach mara Family: Geraniaceae Flowering time: May-September. Annual. Native. The pale pink flowers are rarely seen as the petals fall rapidly, but they are often completely absent. A prostrate downy, compact plant with rosettes of small, toothed, oval leaves. Height to 10cm. Coastal on dunes, short grassland, waste ground, cliffs and walls. Rare but can be locally frequent where it does occur

Sea Stork's-bill, Erodium maritimum, Creagach mara