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Butterwort on 3-rock mountain

  • 23-06-2013 3:26pm
    #1
    Desmo
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    I was out for a walk on 3-Rock Mountain in Dublin, this morning and I saw a pile of these in flower; they are common butterwort.
    http://www.botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/potd/2006/07/pinguicula_vulgaris.php
    They were neat the summit, before the last bend on the path at the top, along a ditch on the right hand side of the path. These are widespread enough but either they do not flower very often or they only flower for a short while. Anyway, there were hundreds in flower and they look very pretty and it is ages since I have seen them in flower. They are carnivourous, catching small insects on the sticky leaves.


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  • #2
    Alun
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    There's plenty of those around in the soggier parts of the Dublin and Wicklow mountains often occurring together with sundews. There's an accessible enough place to spot them up near the footbridge at the top of the zig-zag path leading up from the miner's village in Glendalough for example.


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    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    These are widespread and fairly common throughout the boggy or damp areas of Ireland. They can be seen from around May until late August.


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    Birdnuts
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    I've seen the much rarer "Giant" Butterwort in various parts of the West. Mind you we shouldn't take the more common Butterwort for granted since it has declined enormously in the UK over the last 100 years or so.


  • #5
    Desmo
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    Birdnuts wrote: »
    I've seen the much rarer "Giant" Butterwort in various parts of the West. Mind you we shouldn't take the more common Butterwort for granted since it has declined enormously in the UK over the last 100 years or so.

    I have seen both in many places but seeing them in flower is much harder to do. The reason I was so worked up about the 3 rock ones was because there were hundreds in flower all in one place. The Giant one is spectacular if you see its flowers. There used to be a colony of them at the back of a hotel in Lisdoonvarna and I saw teh whole lot in flower once and they were amazing.


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