Scientific name: Persicaria minor (Huds.) Opiz
Common name: Small Water-pepper
Description
Habit: Annual, to 40 cm high.
Stems: Straggling, trailing or sometimes erect.
Leaves: Alternate or basal, undivided, 2-7 cm long, untoothed, oblong-lanceolate, broadest near the base; stipules whitish or brown, united to form a sheath surrounding stem or leaf stalk.
Flowers: Deep pink, actinomorphic, numerous in small, erect, slender, axillary or terminal spikes; tepals 5, free, not winged, without glands; stamens 8; ovary superior, 1-celled, style 1, divided into 2 or 3.
Fruits: A small nut, 3-angled or 3-winged, 2 mm, black and shiny.
Habitat: Turloughs, lake-shores.Distribution: Very local, only on limestone.
Native status: Native
Of conservation interest: No