I went searching for Orange Foxtail (Alopecurus aequalis) in Lough Gash, Newmarket-on-Fergus. This elegant and colour grass is only present in a handful of sites in Ireland, it is protected under Wildlife Acts.
Pleased to have found it doing well!
#Turloughs
What a turlough basin looks like in June 🌿
Meadowsweet, silverweed, mint, eyebrights, and a few special Fen Violets tucked in there too.
#WildflowerHour #Turloughs
Shoreweed (Littorella uniflora) — an aquatic plant that only flowers when exposed by falling water levels. Common on turloughs, but easy to miss.
The flowers are tiny, but worth crouching down for a closer look 🌿💧
#Turloughs #AquaticPlants
A nod to the (semi) aquatic specialists I found this week in — the plants adapted to the rise and fall of a turlough basin:
• Turlough Dandelion
• Common Bladderwort
• Lesser Water-plantain
• Greater Spearwort
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One of our loveliest — and rarest — native shrubs: Shrubby Cinquefoil (Dasiphora fruticosa). It loves a habitat both damp and rocky, and is right at home in the #Turloughs in the Burren.
This patch was growing right on the edge of Rockforest Turlough, nestled beside the iconic “Burren Pines” 🌿💛
