Irish wildflowers BSBI map

Ivy-leaved Crowfoot, Ranunculus hederaceus, Néal uisce eidhneach
Photographs: Ballingeary, Co. Cork

Ivy-leaved Crowfoot
Ranunculus hederaceus
Néal uisce eidhneach
Family: Ranunculaceae

Flowering: March-August. Aquatic annual or perennial. Native

Small white flowers (4-7mm diameter), the sepals not reflexed and slightly shorter than petals. Hairless young fruits. The long-stalked leaves are all laminar with 5 short, rounded lobes, broadest at base, and sometimes a dark blotch. No incisions between lobes. Roots at intervals from nodes.

Frequent except in parts of central Ireland in wet mud or shallow water

Similar: Round-leaved Crowfoot, Ranunculus omiophyllus

Ivy-leaved Crowfoot, Ranunculus hederaceus, Néal uisce eidhneach

Ivy-leaved Crowfoot, Ranunculus hederaceus, Néal uisce eidhneach
Ivy-leaved Crowfoot, Ranunculus hederaceus, Néal uisce eidhneach

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