Can you identify this plant?

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Can you identify this plant?

Post: # 284862Post doofaloofa »

It is growing in largish patches, on and around rock

The ground is neglected pasture/heathland in the process of being restored

It seems to spread via the creeping leaves and is quite tolerant of wet ground

In SW Ireland

Any ideas?
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Not a scooby, but it is really pretty, looks sedum like doesn't it

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Post: # 284865Post doofaloofa »

The closest i have got is Purple Saxifrage, only the leaves are wrong

Sedum leaves are fleshy aren't they?

These leaves are more reminiscent of cress
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Post: # 284866Post Green Aura »

The leaves look like some relative of purslane, but I've never seen it in flower. It's very pretty though. :iconbiggrin:
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ina wrote: die dümmsten Bauern haben die dicksten Kartoffeln

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Post: # 284881Post diggernotdreamer »

nice to know. That would not be a plant I have ever come across in the wild, will have to go to the bog and see if there are some near me, I have seen a few things up there I was not familiar with

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