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Montbretia
Montbretia
English Name: Montbretia Botanical Name (Latin): Crocosmia x crocosmiiflora Irish Name: Feileastram dearg Order: MONOCOTYLEDONES Family: IRIDACEAE Brief Description: Perennial herb with underground corm; leaves green, arching, to 0.5m long, deciduous; flowers rich orange with darker marks in throat, in an arching spike, petals 6, spreading.
Carsten Krieger
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Ox Eye Daisy 2
Ox Eye Daisy 2
English Name: Oxeye daisy, dog daisy Botanical Name (Latin): Leucanthemum vulgare (Chrysanthemum leucanthemum) Irish Name: Nóinín mór Order: DIOTYLEDONES Family: ASTERACEAE (COMPOSITAE) Brief Description: Perennial herb; leaves in basal rosette oval, toothed; flowering stem to 0.7m tall; flower-heads daisy-like with white rays and yellow disc, to 5cm across.
Carsten Krieger
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Water Mint
Water Mint
English Name: Water mint Botanical Name (Latin): Mentha aquatica Irish Name: Mismín mionsach Order: DIOTYLEDONES Family: LAMIACEAE (LABIATAE) Brief Description: Aromatic, perennial herb; leaves oval, often tinged purple; flowers pale lilac, in compact spike at tip of stem, and occasionally in a separate whorl or two lower down.
Carsten Krieger
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Brittle Bladder-fern
Brittle Bladder-fern
English Name: Brittle bladder-fern Botanical Name (Latin): Cystopteris fragilis Irish Name: Raithneach bhriosc Order: PTERIDOPSIDA Family: WOODSIACEAE Brief Description: Delicate, small fern, with deciduous, erect, grass-green leaves, on slender, brittle, green stalks.
Carsten Krieger
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Bird's-foot Trefoil
Bird's-foot Trefoil
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.
Carsten Krieger
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Honeysuckle
Honeysuckle
English Name: Honeysuckle, woodbine Botanical Name (Latin): Lonicera periclymenum Irish Name: Féithleann, taith-fheithleann, feithleóg Order: DICOTYLEDONES Family: CAPRIFOLIACEAE Brief Description: Climbing or sprawling, deciduous shrub; stems twining or erect; leaves in pairs; flowers trumpet- shaped, white or yellow usually with dark red tinge, fragrant; berries scarlet.
Carsten Krieger
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Water Avens
Water Avens
English Name: Water avens Botanical Name (Latin): Geum rivale Irish Name: Machall uisce Order: DIOTYLEDONES Family: ROSACEAE Brief Description: Perennial herb; leaves in basal rosette; dark red flowers nodding, bell-like, clustered on erect stems; petals pale red, sepals dark.
Carsten Krieger
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Helleborine 2
Helleborine 2
English Name: Helleborine Botanical Name (Latin): Epipactis helleborine (Epipactis latifolia) Irish Name: Ealabairín Order: MONOCOTYLEDONES Family: ORCHIDACEAE Brief Description: Tall, perennial herb, very variable, to 0.8(?1)m tall; 4 or more leaves spirally arranged, oval, ribbed; flowers in elongated, one side spike, numerous (c. 10?60), dull green with pink to purple, but very variable; lip not longer than sepals; ovary without hairs.
Carsten Krieger
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Rock Samphire
Rock Samphire
English Name: Rock samphire Botanical Name (Latin): Crithmum maritimum Irish Name: Craobhraic Order: DIOTYLEDONES Family: APIACEAE (UMBELLIFERAE) Brief Description: Perennial herb; leaves green to blue-green, divided into linear, succulent leaflets; umbels with 10? 20 rays, greenish yellow.
Carsten Krieger
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Common Rat
Common Rat
Common or Norway Rat[Rattus norvegicus]
Lorcan Scott Duchas