Irish wildflowers BSBI map

Bronze Pirri-pirri-bur, Acaena anserinifolia
Photographs: Ballingeary, Co. Cork

Bronze Pirri-pirri-bur
Acaena anserinifolia
Family: Rosaceae

Flowering: June-July. Evergreen perennial. Introduced.

Tiny green-white flowers in dense round heads. Brown seedheads with 4 barbed spines, often one or two shorter. Evergreen leaves with toothed leaflets and often bronze-brown veins and edges. Prostrate, rapidly spreading growth resistant to trampling. Height 4-8cm, spread 60-90cm. Identified by Paul Green BSBI

Rarely recorded garden escape on dry, open ground, roadsides and paths

Similar: Two-spined Pirri-pirri-bur, Acaena ovalifolia

Bronze Pirri-pirri-bur, Acaena anserinifolia

Bronze Pirri-pirri-bur, Acaena anserinifolia
Bronze Pirri-pirri-bur, Acaena anserinifolia

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