Creeping on mud, floating over and carpeting shallow water and drainage ditches, this is an annual or perennial which shows its dainty white flowers (4-8mm across) from May to August. With five narrow petals and sepals – the latter almost as long as the former - the centre of the flower has many bright yellow stamens. The leaves are shallowly 5-lobed with little dark splotches at their centres. Ivy-leaved Crowfoot is a native plant and it belongs to the Ranunculaceae family.
I first recorded this wildflower at Tacumshin, Co Wexford in 2009 and photographed it at that time.
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