Photographs: Co. Limerick

Pink Water-speedwell Veronica catenata Biolar grá dearg Family: Scrophulariaceae Flowering time: June-August. Usually annual. Native. Pink flowers with 4-petals, the reddish veins not reaching edges. Flower stalks are shorter than bracts. Notched fruit. Unstalked linear-lanceolate leaves, scarcely toothed. Creeping or ascending stems to 30cm Throughout Ireland, but scarce in the south-west, in shallow standing or slow-moving water and at the edge of muddy ponds. Similar: Blue Water-speedwell, Veronica anagallis-aquatica

Pink Water-speedwell, Veronica catenata, Biolar grá dearg