Irish wildflowers BSBI map

Equal-leaved Knotgrass, Polygonum arenastrum, Glúineach ghainimh
Photographs: Ballingeary, Co. Cork

Equal-leaved Knotgrass
Polygonum arenastrum
Glúineach ghainimh
Family: Polygonaceae

Flowering time: July-September. Annual. Native.

The small pinkish-white flowers in the leaf axils are solitary or in small clusters. Leaves are of more/less equal length, elliptical to lanceolate. Silver ochrea. The creeping, mat-forming growth tolerates trampling.

Widespread throughout most of Ireland on bare open soil on waste ground, paths, arable land and roadsides.

Similar: Knotgrass, Polygonum aviculare

Equal-leaved Knotgrass, Polygonum arenastrum, Glúineach ghainimh

Equal-leaved Knotgrass, Polygonum arenastrum, Glúineach ghainimh
Equal-leaved Knotgrass, Polygonum arenastrum, Glúineach ghainimh

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