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Plants by Colour

Clicking on the colour grouping will lead to a display of thumbnails of all the wildflowers of that particular colour on this website.  Then just click on the plant’s thumbnail to get to the relevant page of information and photographs.


The plants are grouped as follows:

Blue and Purple Flowers

Pink Flowers

Red and Orange Flowers

Yellow Flowers

Green and Brown Flowers

White Flowers

Ferns

Yellow Flowering Plants

Buttercup, Celery-leaved
Ranunculus sceleratus
Toircheas fiáin

Buttercup, Creeping
Ranunculus repens
Fearbán (reatha)

Buttercup, Meadow
Ranunculus acris
Fearbán féir

Buttonweed
Cotula coronopifolia
Cnaipín

Cat’s-ear
Hypochaeris radicata
Cluas chait

Celandine, Greater
Chelidonium majus
Garra bhuí

Celandine, Lesser
Ficaria verna
Grán arcáin

Charlock
Sinapis arvensis
Praiseach bhuí

Cinquefoil, Creeping
Potentilla reptans
Cúig mhéar Mhuire

Cinquefoil, Shrubby
Potentilla fruticosa
Tor cúigmhéarach

Colt's-foot
Tussilago farfara
Sponc

Comfrey, Tuberous
Symphytum tuberosum
Meacan compair

Cord-grass, Common
Spartina anglica
Spartíneach ghallda

Corydalis, Yellow
Pseudofumaria lutea
Fearbán léana

Cottonweed
Achillea maritima
Cluasach mhara