page_title: Flora of Ireland
section_title: Grassland
hierarchical_section_title: Flora of Ireland / Habitats / Grassland
caption_attribution_description: English: Rough grazing in the Comeraghs. At over 300m on acid sandstone soils, fertility is not great. The land is mostly open sheep walk. Comeragh Mountains in the background.
context_page_description: Ireland is in the Atlantic European Province of the Circumboreal Region, a floristic region within the Holarctic.
context_section_description: Grassland includes 
  Lowland meadow and pasture with grasses such as sweet vernal grass, perennial ryegrass, meadow foxtail, false oat-grass, crested dog's-tail, Festuca rubra, red fescue, downy oat-grass, Yorkshire fog, timothy grass and yellow oat-grass.
  Lowland meadow and pasture flowers include meadow thistle, creeping thistle, spear thistle, pignut, lesser knapweed, meadow thistle, smooth hawksbeard, eyebright, ragged robin, red bartsia, yellow rattle, marsh lousewort, cowslip, catsear, autumn hawkbit, meadow buttercup, bulbous buttercup and dandelion
  Upland pasture (mostly semi-natural, that is maintained by particular farming practices such as grazing and mowing). Typical species are: moor matgrass, wavy hair-grass, species of Agrostis, sheep's fescue, green-ribbed sedge, cross-leaved heath, bell heather, bilberry, black crowberry, deergrass and bog asphodel.
caption: Rough grazing in the Comeraghs
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