Irish wildflowers BSBI map

Weld, Reseda luteola, Buí mor
Photographs: near Bantry, Co. Cork

Weld / Dyers Rocket
Reseda luteola
Buí mor
Family: Resedaceae

Flowering time: June-September. Biennial. Native.

Tall spikes of small yellow-green flowers with 4 petals and sepals. Fruit is globular and 3-lobed. All leaves are unlobed and lanceolate with a pale mid-rib, the basal leaves in a rosette, upper leaves very small-toothed or entire. The stiff, erect stems are branched near the top. To 100cm

Prefers dry, gravelly ground on roadsides and waste ground, less often found on grassland.

Similar: Wild Mignonette, Reseda lutea

Weld, Reseda luteola, Buí mor

Weld, Reseda luteola, Buí mor
Weld, Reseda luteola, Buí mor

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