Irish wildflowers
Photographs: roadsides, Co. Cork |
Nasturtium Tropaeolum majus Family: Tropaeolaceae Flowering June-October. Annual. Garden escape. Large yellow, orange or reddish flowers with funnel-shaped nectar-tubes. Seeding freely. The light-green, rounded leaves have the leaf-stalk in the centre of leaf. Growth can be 15cm to 250cm depending on variety. Grown in gardens as an ornamental and to attract beneficial insects. A widespread garden escape or discard, usually on dry, sunny waste ground, roadsides and rubbish tips |
Nasturtium, Tropaeolum majus
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