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Frogbit, Hydrocharis morsus-ranae, Greim an loscáin
Muckanagh Lough, the Burren, Co. Clare

Frogbit
Hydrocharis morsus-ranae
Greim an loscáin
Family: Hydrocharitaceae

Flowering July - August. Floating perennial. Native.

The white flowers have three petals with a yellow spot at base of petals and are on long stalks that raise the flowers above water level. Solitary female flowers, male 2-3 in a two-bract spathe. Seed set is occasional so mainly reproduces vegetatively. The long-stalked, floating leaves are rounded-kidney shaped with papery basal stipules. A free-floating plant with long runners and buds that overwinter in the mud.

Mainly found in central and eastern Ireland in shallow calcareous ponds, fens, ditches and slow-moving canals.

Frogbit, Hydrocharis morsus-ranae, Greim an loscáin

Frogbit, Hydrocharis morsus-ranae, Greim an loscáin
Frogbit, Hydrocharis morsus-ranae, Greim an loscáin

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