Irish wildflowers BSBI map

Common Scurvygrass, Cochlearia officinalis, Biolar trá
Photographs: near Clonakilty, Co. Cork

Common Scurvygrass
Cochlearia officinalis
Biolar trá
Family: Brassicaceae

Flowering: April-July. Biennial or perennial. Native.

Crowded racemes of white flowers, the petals more than 4mm long, are followed by rounded seed pods. Slightly fleshy leaves, the long-stalked basal leaves kidney or heart shaped, the stalkless stem leaves triangular and toothed. Height usually more than 13cm

Frequent on estuaries, saltmarshes, sea-shores, cliffs and coastal walls

Similar:English Scurvygrass, C. anglica has flattened seedpods

Common Scurvygrass, Cochlearia officinalis, Biolar trá

Common Scurvygrass, Cochlearia officinalis, Biolar trá
Common Scurvygrass, Cochlearia officinalis, Biolar trá

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