Scientific name: Glechoma hederacea L.
Common name: Ground-ivy
Description
Habit: A slightly hairy perennial, to 30 cm high.
Stems: Square, trailing or creeping with stolons often longer than 1 m.
Leaves: Opposite, stalked, to 25 mm across, undivided, deeply cordate, round, deeply and roundly toothed.
Flowers: Violet, zygomorphic, hermaphrodite, 20-25 mm long, in axillary whorl-like clusters; calyx tubular, of five fused sepals, 5-toothed, teeth equal; corolla tubular, of 5 fused petals, 2-lipped, upper lip flat, lower 4-lobed, tube much longer than calyx; stamens 4, attached to the corolla, usually in two pairs, one longer than the other; ovary superior.
Fruits: A group of 4 1-seeded nutlets.
Habitat: Woods, scrub, hedges, limestone pavement, grassland.Distribution: Very frequent in the Burren, rare elsewhere.
Native status: Native
Of conservation interest: No