Skye Flora

Ivy-leaved Toadflax


Cymbalaria muralis

 

Cymbalaria muralis

Photo © Carl Farmer
18 Sep 2001 Sligachan

Occasional on walls

Flower diameter c 6-9 mm

Skye ID: Unmistakable

Other features: Leaves almost fleshy, 5-lobed, like ivy, varying (as ivy does) in the degree and sharpness of the divisions.  Nearly always occurs on the vertical face of a wall, forming a dense mass of leafage from which reddish stems snake out in all directions.

From Southern Europe, began colonising Britain in 1640.

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Cymbalaria muralis

Photo © Carl Farmer
25 Jun 2003 Armadale

  Cymbalaria muralis

Photo © Carl Farmer
25 Jun 2003 Armadale

 

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