Irish wildflowers BSBI map

Small-flowered Sweet-briar, Rosa micrantha, Dris chumhra bheag
Photographs: Co. Waterford

Small-flowered Sweet-briar
Rosa micrantha
Dris chumhra bheag
Family: Rosaceae

Flowering June - July. Deciduous shrub. Native.

Small pink flowers with glandular-hairy stalks. The sepals are strongly reflexed, glandular, simple and lobed and fall before the fruit ripens. Hips with some stalked glands. Leaves are usually hairless above and glandular underneath on tall, arching stems. Identified by Paul Green, BSBI

Mainly found in counties Cork, Waterford and Wexford in the south of Ireland in hedges, forestry rides and on river banks

Small-flowered Sweet-briar, Rosa micrantha, Dris chumhra bheag
Small-flowered Sweet-briar, Rosa micrantha, Dris chumhra bheag

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