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Tormentil

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Potentilla erecta

A tiny yellow flower with only four petals — most rose-family flowers have five! Look for it on heaths all summer long.

Height

20 cm

Blooms

May–Sep

Family

Rose (Rosaceae)

Latin name

Potentilla erecta

Where to find

Where you can find Tormentil in Ireland

Connemara National Park — County Galway: Wild Atlantic mountains, blanket bogs and twinkling lakes. Look for purple heather and yellow bog asphodel in summer, and Atlantic-fringe plants like sundews and butterworts.
Glenveagh National Park — County Donegal: Mountains, glens and one of Ireland's largest red deer herds. Heather paints the slopes purple in late summer, while bog cotton dances over the wet ground.
Wicklow Mountains National Park — County Wicklow: Ireland's largest national park, just south of Dublin. Heather-clad mountains, deep valleys with foxgloves and bog-loving sundews and butterworts.
Wild Nephin National Park — County Mayo: A vast wild bog and mountain wilderness on the west coast. One of Europe's largest blanket bogs — perfect for finding sundews, butterworts and bog cotton.