Irish wildflowers BSBI map

Slender Parsley-piert, Aphanes australis, Mionán Muire caol
Photographs: Ardmore, Co. Waterford

Slender Parsley-piert
Aphanes australis
Mionán Muire caol
Family: Rosaceae

Flowering May - August. Annual. Native.

Very similar to Parsley Piert, A. arvensis but smaller and more slender. Tiny stalkless, greenish-yellow flowers in the leaf axils with 4 sepals but no petals. Large stipules, divided halfway into lobes, surround the sepals. Fruit have small calyx teeth and the seeds usually germinate in the winter. Hairy, fan-shaped leaves with deep lobes.

Widespread on acidic gravelly or sandy soils on dunes, gravel-pits, roadsides and dry rocky ground. Identified by Paul Green

Slender Parsley-piert, Aphanes australis, Mionán Muire caol

Slender Parsley-piert, Aphanes australis, Mionán Muire caol
Slender Parsley-piert, Aphanes australis, Mionán Muire caol

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