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