Wall flora at Keills
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Wall flora at Keills
Image: © M J Richardson Taken: 9 May 2014
On the outside wall of the burial ground at Cill Challuim Chille. The fern is Maidenhair Spleenwort [Asplenium trichomanes], and the purple-blue flowers belong to Ivy-leaved Toadflax, a plant that likes walls and is specially adapted for that habitat by having negatively phototropic seed capsule stalks - they grow away from the light after pollination, so that the seeds are deposited in crevices in the wall.
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Image Location
Latitude
55.841209
Longitude
-6.131268