Irish wildflowers BSBI map

Yellow Bartsia, Parentucellia viscosa, Hocas tae buí
Barleycove and Sherkin Island, Co. Cork

Yellow Bartsia
Parentucellia viscosa
Hocas tae buí
Family: Scrophulariaceae

Flowering time: June-September. Hemiparasitic annual. Native.

The yellow (occasionally white) flowers are 2-lipped, the lower lip longer and with three lobes. They are followed by hairy seed capsules. Opposite, stalkless leaves are coarsely toothed and oblong-lanceolate. An erect, sticky-hairy plant, usually un-branched. Height 10-50cm.

Found on damp, open, sandy soils on grassland, in dune slacks and beside paths. Absent from much of Ireland, mainly recorded from the south-west and north-west

Yellow Bartsia, Parentucellia viscosa, Hocas tae buí

Yellow Bartsia, Parentucellia viscosa, Hocas tae buí
Yellow Bartsia, Parentucellia viscosa, Hocas tae buí

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