Photographs: Co. Cork and Co. Limerick

Gipsywort Lycopus europaeus Feorán corraigh Family: Lamiaceae Flowering time: July-September. Perennial. Native. Many whorls of small whitish-pink flowers at base of the upper leaves and the calyx is bell-shaped, hairy and spine-toothed. The slightly hairy and deeply pinnate-lobed leaves are usually stalked and have very pointed tips and lobes. Height 30-100cm. Likes wet or damp ground on stream and river banks, in fens, marshes and wet woodland and on damp roadsides.

Gipsywort, Lycopus europaeus, Feorán corraigh