Irish wildflowers BSBI map

Field Madder, Sherardia arvensis, Dearg faille
Photographs: Co. Cork and Co. Waterford

Field Madder
Sherardia arvensis
Dearg faille
Family: Rubiaceae

Flowering time: May-September. Annual. Native.

Terminal clusters of small pink 4-petalled flowers, the clusters surrounded by leaf-like bracts. The round, bristly fruit are surrounded by the sepal teeth. Unstalked, pointed leaves are lanceolate with 6 leaves in each whorl. A small, branched, more/less bristly and usually prostrate plant

Decreasing on dry, open waste and arable land, cliffs and dunes

Wild Madder, Rubia peregrina is much larger, to 1.5m. White flowers

Field Madder, Sherardia arvensis, Dearg faille

Field Madder, Sherardia arvensis, Dearg faille
Field Madder, Sherardia arvensis, Dearg faille

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