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Holly 2
Holly 2
English Name: Holly Botanical Name (Latin): Ilex aquifolium Irish Name: Cuileann Order: DICOTYLEDONES Family: AQUIFOLIACEAE Brief Description: Evergreen shrub often conical, or small tree; leaves with spines and wavy margins; flowers white, unisexual, sexes on separate plants; female plants with scarlet berries.
Carsten Krieger
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Common Ivy
Common Ivy
English Name: Common ivy Irish Name: Eidhneán Botanical Name (Latin): Hedera helix Order: DICOTYLEDONES Family: ARALIACEAE Brief Description: Evergreen, self-clinging, climbing or prostate shrub; leaves 3?8cm across, papery, turning purplish in cold weather; flowers in round heads, green; fruit black. (2n = 48).
Carsten Krieger
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Common Spotted Orchid 1
Common Spotted Orchid 1
English Name: Common spotted-orchid Botanical Name (Latin): Dactylorhiza fuchsii (subsp. fuchsii) Irish Name: Nuacht bhallach Order: MONOCOTYLEDONES Family: ORCHIDACEAE Brief Description: Perennial herb, to 0.4m tall (sometimes taller); leaves 5?10, usually marked with dark blotches; flowers pink-purple with darker lines and dots, lip with 3 lobes, the middle one triangular and longer than the side lobes; bracts short and narrow.
Carsten Krieger
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Common Spotted Orchid
Common Spotted Orchid
English Name: Common spotted-orchid Botanical Name (Latin): Dactylorhiza fuchsii (subsp. fuchsii) Irish Name: Nuacht bhallach Order: MONOCOTYLEDONES Family: ORCHIDACEAE Brief Description: Perennial herb, to 0.4m tall (sometimes taller); leaves 5?10, usually marked with dark blotches; flowers pink-purple with darker lines and dots, lip with 3 lobes, the middle one triangular and longer than the side lobes; bracts short and narrow.
Carsten Krieger
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Bramble 3
Bramble 3
English Name: Blackberry, bramble Botanical Name (Latin): Rubus fruticosus Irish Name: Dris Order: DICOTYLEDONES Family: ROSACEAE Brief Description: Very variable, thorny, deciduous or semi-evergreen shrub forming vast impenetrable thickets; stems erect or arching and often rooting at tips; flowers with white or pink petals; fruits black.
Carsten Krieger
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Common Hawthorn 1
Common Hawthorn 1
English Name: Common Hawthorn, whitethorn, may Botanical Name (Latin): Crataegus monogyna Irish Name: Sceach gheal Order: DICOTYLEDONES Family: ROSACEAE Brief Description: Deciduous, thorny tree or shrub; leaves deeply lobed; flowers creamy-white (rarely pink), with heavy, musky fragrance; fruits red, with 1 nutlet.
Carsten Krieger
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Burnet Rose 1
Burnet Rose 1
English Name: Burnet rose, Scotch rose Botanical Name (Latin): Rosa pimpinellifolia (R. spinosissima) Irish Name: Briúlán Order: DICOTYLEDONES Family: ROSACEAE Brief Description: Very spiny, deciduous shrub, usually c. 0.5m tall; flowers solitary, white, cream or pink; hip black with persistent crown of sepals.
Carsten Krieger
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Hemp Agrimony 1
Hemp Agrimony 1
English Name: Hemp-agrimony Botanical Name (Latin): Eupatorium cannabinum Irish Name: Cnáib uisce Order: DICOTYLEDONES Family: ASTERACEAE (COMPOSITAE) Brief Description: Robust perennial herb, to 1m tall; leaves 3-lobed or pinnate with 5 leaflets; florets pink, all tubular, in terminal, compound head.
Carsten Krieger
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Bird's-foot Trefoil 2
Bird's-foot Trefoil 2
English Name: Bird?s-foot-trefoil Botanical Name (Latin): Lotus corniculatus Irish Name: Crobh éin Order: DICOTYLEDONES Family: FABACEAE (LEGUMINOSAE) Perennial herb; stems spreading, solid; leaves with 5 leaflets; flowers bright yellow, sometimes orange or streaked red.
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Tutsan 2
Tutsan 2
English Name: Tutsan Botanical Name (Latin): Hypericum androsaemum Irish Name: Meas torc allta Order: DIOTYLEDONES Family: CLUSIACEAE (GUTTIFERAE, HYPERICACEAE) Brief Description: Deciduous, shrubby perennial; leaves oval, 5?10cm long; flowers yellow, small (less than 2cm across), at tips of shoots; fruits turning red, ripening black.
Carsten Krieger