Photographs: Aughinish, Co. Limerick

Small Toadfax Chaenorhinum minus Buaflíon minus Family: Scrophulariaceae Flowering May-September. Annual. Introduced. The small pale-purple flowers with two lips and a short spur are long-stalked and grow from the leaf axils. A spring-germinating slender, branched, downy plant with linear grey-green leaves. Height to 25cm. Well-drained, often calcareous soils on waste ground, fields, paths and walls. Previously common on arable land and by railway tracks but has decreased due to herbicides.

Small Toadfax, Chaenorhinum minus, Buaflíon minus