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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 · 7d

Our annual membership special offer opens today!
Join us this month & you'll enjoy 15 months of membership benefits for the price of 12.
Those benefits are so numerous & fabulous you'll have to head over here to see them all:
bsbipublicity.blogspot.com/2025/10/bsbi...
Then join us! bsbi.org/join-us

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The National Plant Monitoring Scheme @npms.bsky.social · 2d

Book now for our online #NPMS10 celebration event on 18 October: https://ow.ly/aXAI50X4fox Guest speakers include @nickmarriner.bsky.social @thechilterns.bsky.social on using @npms.bsky.social methods at a landscape scale and Sam Munnis, Nature Evidence Ecologist at @nationaltrust.org.uk

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Tristan Norton @trisnorton.bsky.social · 1d

Lots of lovely rayed Common Knapweed Centaurea nigra and plenty of Pepper-saxifrage Silaum silaus, many turning a beautiful autumn red. North Hinksey, Oxford yesterday. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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BSBI Botany @bsbibotany.bsky.social · 15h

Yay, congrats to @willgeorge.bsky.social on finding a York Groundsel!
@bsbicountries.bsky.social was hunting for one the other day, but they are hard to find at this time of year.

Will George @willgeorge.bsky.social · 1d

Found this in York. It's a groundsel, but is it a York Groundsel?! @bramblebotanist.bsky.social

A phone photo of a plant with yellow flowers and green toothed leaves

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The National Plant Monitoring Scheme @npms.bsky.social · 1d

Book now for our online #NPMS10 celebration event on 18 October: https://ow.ly/rNw750X4fAH Talk by @bsbicountries.bsky.social on why collecting botanical data is important for other organisations. This event is hosted by @bsbibotany.bsky.social, 1 of 4 @npms.bsky.social partners.

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David Bentley @sussextangerine.bsky.social · 1d

In our garden Fleabane flowered forever 💛, and it was good enough to pass the baton onto Yarrow 🤍 (pictured) which is still going strong well in October. Hoverflies send their thanks.
#UKwildlife
#Sussexwildlife
@sussexwildlife.bsky.social
@bsbibotany.bsky.social
@wildflowerhour.bsky.social

A delicate white flower in front of a grassy sward.

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Roger_TL45Y @rogerhorton.bsky.social · 1d

In an otherwise barren verge around a supermarket carpark in Newmarket Rd #Cambridge surprised to find Apple of Peru, Nicandra physaloides, looking as though it has been carefully tended! 💜🖤🤗
#Solanaceae #Nightshades #Botany
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Tristan Norton @trisnorton.bsky.social · 2d

A trip up the road to Port Meadow, Oxford today. Stumbled on the marvellous Mudwort Limosella aquatica: easily hundreds, likely thousands. Also, might the orange blob in the last image be a fungal growth? @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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BSBI Botany @bsbibotany.bsky.social · 1d

We're keen to hear @nickmarriner.bsky.social @thechilterns.bsky.social talking at #NPMS10 online event on 18 Oct about using @npms.bsky.social methods at landscape scale & Sam Munnis on how NPMS & @nationaltrust.org.uk work together.
Book here for these talks:
www.tickettailor.com/events/botan...

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Moira O'Donnell @naturelark.bsky.social · 2d

The symbol of the fictional Sir Percy Blakeney’s secret identity as the Scarlet Pimpernel - Lysimachia arvensis growing outside Heathfield House in Croydon. #WildflowerHour

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BSBI Botany @bsbibotany.bsky.social · 1d

Wondering why @bsbicountries.bsky.social was hunting for the York Groundsel/ Ragwort?
It's a hybrid between Groundsel & Oxford Ragwort: they're both common but the hybrid certainly isn't!
Read its backstory here: plantatlas2020.org/atlas/2cd4p9...
Ask @bramblebotanist.bsky.social for latest news!

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Tristan Norton @trisnorton.bsky.social · 2d

My main reason for visiting the beautiful Port Meadow, Oxford, was to see Marsh Dock Rumex palustris. This species doesn't occur in Hampshire (one record, from 1928), so a special trip was needed. Very pleased, it's a lovely thing. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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BSBI Botany @bsbibotany.bsky.social · 1d

Paging our friends @britmycolsoc.org.uk & @bitheolaidhe.bsky.social re that orange blob/ possible fungus!

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BSBI Botany @bsbibotany.bsky.social · 1d

Narrow-leaved Ragwort has spread rapidly in towns across Britain & Ireland.
It's now locally abundant around Dublin, according to its #PlantAtlas2020 page:
plantatlas2020.org/atlas/2cd4p9...
It features in #UrbanPlants, the fab new book by @trevorthebotanist.bsky.social
Have you seen it near you?

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BSBI Botany @bsbibotany.bsky.social · 1d

The amazing Dr Rachel Murphy from @plantlifeuk.bsky.social is speaking at #NPMS10 online celebrations on 18 Oct.
There would be no @npms.bsky.social without the volunteer surveyors who collect data about our wild plants. Rachel supports those #NPMSVolunteers & will be amplifying all #VolunteerVoices

The National Plant Monitoring Scheme @npms.bsky.social · 3d

Book now for our online #NPMS10 celebration event on 18 October: https://ow.ly/jlRJ50X4fe4 Rachel Murphy from @plantlifeuk.bsky.social (1 of 4 @npms.bsky.social partners) will be talking about #NPMSVolunteer roles, opportunities & accessibility & hosting an array of #VolunteerVoices.

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Alison L @alisonlock25.bsky.social · 2d

This spear thistle in the garden just burst into bloom today! Waiting to see if the other buds manage to aswell before weather turns colder - east central Scotland #wildflower #wildflowerhour

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Moira O'Donnell @naturelark.bsky.social · 2d

With apologies for being a day late for #WildflowerHour (due to some unaccustomed Sunday evening gallivanting), here is some Fig-leaved Goosefoot, Chenopodium ficifolium, growing on some unloved ground next to the Fairfield Halls in central Croydon.

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BSBI Botany @bsbibotany.bsky.social · 2d

Looking forward to #NPMS10 keynote on how to design the ideal plant monitoring scheme.
Speaker: Chris Cheffings, @jncc.bsky.social Ecosystems Analysis Team Leader.
JNCC is 1 of 4 @npms.bsky.social partners alongside BSBI, @ukceh.bsky.social & @plantlifeuk.bsky.social
Book here: ow.ly/TOIL50X4ee3

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David Elston @1davidelston.bsky.social · 3d

Some lovely areas of wet heath near Boat of Garten had impressively large and dense mats of small cranberry. Given how healthy these mats looked, they had surprisingly few berries, but just a few had fully open flowers so perhaps more to come?

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Sim Elliott @sim-elliott.bsky.social · 2d

It's always good to come across Juniper spontaneously. On Sullington Hill nr Storington. West Sussex. If I had looked at the Sussex Rare Plant Register, befote my walk, I would have known it was here! About 15 trees. Juniper is very rare now on the South Downs. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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BSBI Ireland @bsbiireland.bsky.social · 3d

A treat to see these gorgeous photos - it's not so common in NW Ireland, where I am, or the Scottish Highlands, as shown in the @bsbibotany.bsky.social #PlantAtlas

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BSBI Botany @bsbibotany.bsky.social · 2d

Ooh! Check out the #PlantAtlas2020 page for Least Adder's-tongue to see more pix & find out why @pilning.bsky.social was so happy to see this teeny-weeny fern!
plantatlas2020.org/atlas/2cd4p9...

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@PurbeckWild @purbeckwild.bsky.social · 2d

Autumn Ladies' Tresses on Studland Heath - Phew! I thought I'd missed them all.

#wildflowerhour #Purbeck #ukflora #dorsetwildlife #orchids #ladiestresses #naturephotography #bloomscrolling #autumn