Irish wildflowers BSBI map

Nasturtium, Tropaeolum majus
Photographs: roadsides, Co. Cork

Nasturtium
Tropaeolum majus
Family: Tropaeolaceae

Flowering June-October. Annual. Garden escape.

Large yellow, orange or reddish flowers with funnel-shaped nectar-tubes. Seeding freely. The light-green, rounded leaves have the leaf-stalk in the centre of leaf. Growth can be 15cm to 250cm depending on variety.

Grown in gardens as an ornamental and to attract beneficial insects. A widespread garden escape or discard, usually on dry, sunny waste ground, roadsides and rubbish tips

Nasturtium, Tropaeolum majus

Nasturtium, Tropaeolum majus
Nasturtium, Tropaeolum majus

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