Photographs: Ballingeary, Co. Cork

Bronze Pirri-pirri-bur Acaena anserinifolia Family: Rosaceae Flowering: June-July. Evergreen perennial. Introduced. Tiny green-white flowers in dense round heads. Brown seedheads with 4 barbed spines, often one or two shorter. Evergreen leaves with toothed leaflets and often bronze-brown veins and edges. Prostrate, rapidly spreading growth resistant to trampling. Height 4-8cm, spread 60-90cm. Identified by Paul Green BSBI Rarely recorded garden escape on dry, open ground, roadsides and paths Similar: Two-spined Pirri-pirri-bur, Acaena ovalifolia

Bronze Pirri-pirri-bur, Acaena anserinifolia