A seletion of the fabulous range of abundent wildflowers that the Burren is famous for. While we have categorised these flowers according to season, many cross seasons. Indeed many flower from May to October. Join us on a walk to learn more!
Spring Burren Wildflowers

Spring Gentians
This alpine flower has become an icon for the Burren. Normally only found in high Alpine meadows in Europe. A rare gem, the stand out because of their ‘electric blue’ colour.

Lords & Ladies
Also known as the Cuckoo Pint, it produces poisonous orange berries in July/August. A woodland flower.

Early Purple Orchid
Flowers April/May. Pictured her with a Spring Gentian and an early Mountain Aven.

Wild Garlic
Ramsoms. You can find carpets of wild garlic on the woodland floors in May, with the heady scent of garlic filling the air.

False Oxlips
A member of the Primrose family, this hybrid flower is a cross pollination of the Primrose and the Cowslip.

False Oxlips
A close-up of the False Oxlips. The shape and colour varies, according to how cross-pollination of the Primrose/Cowslip occurs.

Blackthorn
The first flower in Ireland’s native hedgerows, the Blackthorn will fruit in the autumn with very bitter berries called sloes. The famous Irish walking stick, the Shillelagh, is made from the wood of the Blachthorn.
Summer Burren Wildflowers

Bloody Cranesbill
One of the stellar flowers of the Burren in early summer, the cranesbill is a member of the geranium family

Ragworth
Buchaillán Buí (Yellow Boy in Irish) this plant is the food of the Cinnabar Moth’s catapillar.












