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Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland Studying, appreciating, recording & conserving wild plants across Britain & Ireland. Supporting the botanists who care about our wild plants https://bsbi.org/ #NewYearPlantHunt #PlantAtlas2020 #WildFlowerHour

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BSBI Botany @bsbibotany.bsky.social · 2d

Want to up your #WildFlowerID game this winter?
We just launched our Winter Webinar programme!
7-8pm, every Tuesday from 4 Nov - 10 Feb.
Thanks to funding from @daera-ni.gov.uk, these 10 great plant ID webinars are FREE for all of you to attend!
Programme & booking links: bsbi.org/botanical-sk...

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BSBI Botany @bsbibotany.bsky.social · 10h

Huge thanks to everyone who shared pix for this evening's #WildFlowerHour!
Wondering which wild plants will still be blooming in the week ahead? Let's meet up next Sunday 8pm to compare notes!
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Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social · 10h

More roadside botanising in north west #Northumberland this afternoon. Chicory along the verges of the B6531 #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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Sarah @sarahfaulkner.bsky.social · 10h

So many plants to enjoy at the Nothe, Weymouth - seaweed in rockpools and trees in the park, but stand still too long and the squirrels will take advantage! 😂
For #wildflowerhour, flowers of Chicory, Tamarisk and Mayweed add colour. But the Ivy flowers are the stars - abuzz with honeybees and wasps.

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John Martin @pilning.bsky.social · 10h

Chain Fern (Woodwardia radicans) spreading well in Gulval Churchyard, Cornwall this week. A much bigger plant than I was expecting! #wildflowerhour

Chain Fern in churchyard in W Cornwall - a large and striking fern

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Jo Stephen @jostephen.bsky.social · 10h

Yellow-horned Poppy, Glaucium flavum, on Brownsea Island #wildflowerhour

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Eirian @miltonei.bsky.social · 10h

Yew, hedge cranesbill, and greater knapweed, all caught my eye this week.
#wildflowerhour

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Peter Sketch @petersketch.bsky.social · 10h

More from Snettisham yesterday - Viper's Bugloss, the last few flowers still hanging on. #WildflowerHour

A mix of pink and blue flowers on the same plant.

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Sarah Lambert @sarahlambert7.bsky.social · 10h

Viper's-bugloss and Salad-burnet still flowering on sandy soil at Deeping Lakes NR early this week - almost certainly introduced with a wildflower mix, now established with records for both dating back to 2015.

#wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Blue flowers of Viper's-bugloss against a dark background

Fluffy-red stigmas of the female flowers of Salad Burnet

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Neil Forbes @treebeard793.bsky.social · 10h

The British distribution of the neophyte Narrow-leaved Ragwort, Senecio inaequidens has exploded over the past 25-years or so. Here in one of it's favoured habitats, a railway platform.
#wildflowerhour
#Carnforth #Lancashire
#InvasivePlants
#Neophyte
plantatlas2020.org/atlas/2cd4p9...

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Donna Rainey @donnarainey4.bsky.social · 10h

Selfheal & Bush vetch #wildflowerhour

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Jo Stephen @jostephen.bsky.social · 10h

Narrow-leaved Michaelmas Daisy, Symphyotrichum lanceloatum & spider, on a verge up the lane. #wildflowerhour

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Lindsey Atkinson @ljatkinson.bsky.social · 10h

White deadnettle, yarrow and bramble #StillFlowering in East Yorkshire for #WildFlowerHour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

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Claraisreading 🌿💙📚📚 @claramay.bsky.social · 10h

#WildflowerHour one last hogweed, standing not very tall, and flowering in the field. There was a late hay cut, and this has come up since then.

Dark green divided leaves, Hairy stem, flower a group of white umbels. A rather short hogweed plant growing in short grass

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Jo Stephen @jostephen.bsky.social · 10h

Common Mouse-ear, Cerastium fontanum #wildflowerhour

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Neil Forbes @treebeard793.bsky.social · 10h

You can rely on Sea Mayweed to brighten up a coastal scene at this time of year. A near-ubiquitous species around the coastline of the British Isles . Have a look, hardly any species have distributions that are this clear - plantatlas2020.org/atlas/2cd4p9...
#wildflowerhour
#CumbriaBotany
#Arnside

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Laura McKee @lauramckee.bsky.social · 10h

Pink common yarrow #WildflowerHour

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Donna Rainey @donnarainey4.bsky.social · 10h

Milkwort flowering today, both the blue & the pink. #wildflowerhour

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Peter Gibbs @petergibbs.bsky.social · 10h

First hazel catkins spotted
#wildflowerhour

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wonderingfree.bsky.social @wonderingfree.bsky.social · 10h

A little Hogweed and a Meadow Vetchling spotted in the verge in Hampshire having survived the annual cutting of the verge.

#WildflowerHour #Wildflowers #Nature #Naturephotography #Bloomscrolling #Wildflowers #Photography

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An image of a hogweed, small white flowers with hints of pink.

An image of a small yellow pea like flower, tiny and beautiful.

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Ali Peaker @alipeaker.bsky.social · 10h

Allseed, Linum radiola in a dune slack at Forvie National Nature Reserve today. It was so tiny we wouldn’t have seen it if we hadn’t been kneeling down to look at something else! #wildflowerhour

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sarahrubalcava.bsky.social @sarahrubalcava.bsky.social · 11h

Golden yellow Dandelion #wildflowerhour

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Dr Jill Whitelock @jillwhitelock.bsky.social · 11h

Red valerian in Ely yesterday. #WildflowerHour

Close-up photograph of bright pink flowers of Red valerian against a blurred dark green background.

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sarahrubalcava.bsky.social @sarahrubalcava.bsky.social · 11h

Saw this Strawberry Tree Arbutus unedo in flower in Waterford University campus #wildflowerhour

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Kirsty Evans @kirstyevans.bsky.social · 11h

Caught my eye out on a walk this week in Newton Poppleford East Devon. Black Nightshade looking fresh and mysterious! #wildflowerhour

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Prof Jenny Rohn @jennyrohn.bsky.social · 11h

Plenty of nuts, berries and fungi this week, but very few flowers in my part of Kent. Here’s Green Alkanet (Pentaglottis sempervirens), which graces our verges from spring well into winter

#WildflowerHour

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A small deep-blue flower (6 petals with a lighter blue centre) on a lush-leaved stem with fallen brown leaves in the background

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