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BSBI Ireland @bsbiireland.bsky.social · 3d

Papery Carline Thistle (Carlina vulgaris) always looks spectacular, even when it's gone over (hmm, it always looks a bit like it's gone over!)
Lots on the dunes at #Strandhill, #CoSligo @bsbibotany.bsky.social @organicbotanic.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social #wildflowerhour #seedheads (just!)

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Joni Cook @cookjonil.bsky.social · 3d

Lovely to spot Red Campion and Wood Avens flowering in the woods, providing an autumnal food source for pollinators. #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.
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Black In Plant Science- UK @blackinplantsci.bsky.social · 15d

📢Speaker Announcement: CARGO Movement
🧾Panel: The Journey of Plants through Black Botanist

CARGO is a not for profit organisation founded in 2016 by creative director Charles Golding and Poet Lawrence Hoo.

Learn more about CARGO Movement and register here: buff.ly/jWhjAei

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BSBI Scotland @bsbiscotland.bsky.social · 12d

What wonderful news, and what a wonderful plant! Holly Fern is the best fern 😍

Holy Fern - a rosette of serrated, spikey fern fronds, green with a yellowish midrib, growing high in the Grey Corries in Scotland

Baby Holly Fern croziers starting to unfurl, like little bright green nautilus against a greying backdrop of dry moss. Grey Corries in Scotland

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Joni Cook @cookjonil.bsky.social · 11d

Registration for this fantastic event closes tomorrow, Sun 28th! Please share widely. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Yoselin Benitez-Alfonso @yoselin.bsky.social · 22d

I can't stress it more. This conference has been designed for us by us. Support @blackinplantsci.bsky.social conference at the University of Leeds funded by the SEB, Faculty of Biological Science at Leeds, the Grow More and New Phytologist foundations and Gastby. Join us on 24/10, details below.

Black In Plant Science- UK @blackinplantsci.bsky.social · 28d

📢Deadlines fast approaching for the BiPS Conference 2025!

Join us for a day of connection and celebration where we'll be hearing from the renowned academics Nicola Patron and Kevin Cox. With workshops on a variety of topics and a chance for you to build your community.

Register: buff.ly/J9PM0Wj

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Jeremy Bartlett @jeremybartlett.bsky.social · 20d

On the castle walls.

Castle Acre, Norfolk, yesterday.

Common Calamint and Common Ragwort still in flower. Rosebay Willowherb on the castle mound.

#WildFlowerHour

Castle Acre Castle ramparts. Ragwort & Common Calamint flowering in foreground. Rosebay Willowherb on castle mound.

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BSBI Botany @bsbibotany.bsky.social · 17d

Well done @ka7enj.bsky.social on finding Slender Tare, new for Leicestershire!
#WildFlowerHour

Karen @ka7enj.bsky.social · 17d

@wildflowerhour.bsky.social Very excited to find out that I have the first record of Slender tare in VC55. Here it is still in flower today. #wildflowerhour

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Joni Cook @cookjonil.bsky.social · 17d

Yarrow, Common Knapweed and Hogweed still flowering this week along rural verges, Leicestershire. #wildflowerhour

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wildflowerhour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social · 17d

It’s Sunday and it’s 8pm so it must be time for #WildflowerHour! 🥳 Please share your pics of the wild and naturalised blooms you’ve spotted from across Britain and Ireland in the last week!

Lesley @lesleylovesnature.bsky.social · 17d

Despite the local churchyard just having its Autumn grass cut & ‘tidy up’, I found these flowers in bloom there this week: Ivy, Autumn Hawkbit, Common Knapweed, Hedgerow Cranesbill, Field Forget-me-not, Herb Robert, Burnet-saxifrage, Yarrow, Common Toadflax & Cyclamen #WildflowerHour

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 20d

Great opportunity. Please share/repost with anyone with a botany, ecology or environmental science qualification!

#botany #wildflowerhour #science #ecology

BSBI Botany @bsbibotany.bsky.social · 20d

We're hiring!
Could you help us support & grow the community of botanists across Northern Ireland?
Manage our @daera-ni.gov.uk-funded Botanical Skills Training Project?
Help boost participation in @npms.bsky.social across NI?
Please apply by midnight this Sunday, 21 Sept:
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · 19d

It’s time for women and allies to speak up. To say ‘not in our name’ to the discrimination and exclusion of trans people. Are you with us?

✍️ If you are a woman and agree please sign @nionwomen.bsky.social 's open letter
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Not In Our Name: Women in support of the trans+ community - Not in our name

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Joni Cook @cookjonil.bsky.social · 21d

It's widely distributed across Europe, Asia, & North America, where it grows in a variety of dry, open habitats including grasslands, heaths, and sand dunes 🌱

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Joni Cook @cookjonil.bsky.social · 24d

Beautiful!

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Jo Stephen @jostephen.bsky.social · 24d

Herb Paris, Paris quadrifolia, in a local woodland #wildflowerhour #favouriteplant

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Rebecca Wheeler @botanybeck.bsky.social · 24d

I hadn’t seen it for a couple of years so it was extra special in early June to catch up with my #FavouritePlant! The gorgeous Mertensia maritima, commonly named Oysterplant, as the leaves taste like the fruits of the sea! Caithness #Wildflowerhour

The gorgeous blue bell-shaped flowers of Oysterplant are tinged pink in bud like the other members of the Borage family in which this most beautiful plant belongs.

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Joni Cook @cookjonil.bsky.social · 24d

A highlight this year was these beautiful Harebell (Campanula rotundifolia L.) in acid grassland, a species in strong decline due to drivers such as habitat loss and nitrogen deposition. #FavouritePlant #wildflowerhour

Close up of a Harebell flower, with raindrops on the petals.

A cluster of Harebell in acid grassland, North West Leicestershire.

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Butterfly Conservation @savebutterflies.bsky.social · 29d

The #BigButterflyCount results are in and it's official...

2025 was an average year for butterflies.

See the full results and what can be done to help butterflies and moths 👇
https://butterfly-conservation.org/big-butterfly-count-results-2025

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wildflowerhour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social · 26d

For the last weekly challenge, we want to know what was your favourite plant that you’ve spotted from across Britain and Ireland this year? Share your pics for #wildflowerhour this Sunday 8-9pm using the hashtag #favouriteplant and we’ll celebrate it with you! 🥳🌿🌸

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BSBI Botany @bsbibotany.bsky.social · Sep 8

We invite all #BSBImembers & supporters to take part in our 2025 survey & help inform our future direction!
All responders receive a 60% discount code on our eBooks until the end of September & there's a prize draw to win a year's free membership.
Start the survey:
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BSBI Member and Supporter Survey 2025

We are looking to learn more about our members, and supporters, and about how the BSBI is working. As a Society, it is vital that we work with members to meet our goals and ensure we have the greatest...

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Moira O'Donnell @naturelark.bsky.social · Sep 7

The utterly ridiculous seed pods of Yellow Horned Poppy, Glaucium flavum, at Rye Harbour. One plant still had a flower tenaciously hanging on in there. #Wildflowerhour #SeedHeads

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Big Meadow Search @bigmeadowsearch.bsky.social · Sep 7

For the #seedheads challenge for #wildflowerhour
Strawberry Clover, Trifolium fragiferum. Seed pod is enclosed by the swollen, downy, net-veined calyx tube

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Joni Cook @cookjonil.bsky.social · Sep 7

Hedge Woundwort and Meadowsweet #SeedHeads in Leicestershire this week. #wildflowerhour

Seedheads of Hedge Woundwort (Stachys sylvatica).

Seedheads of Meadowsweet (Filipendula ulmaria).

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wildflowerhour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social · Sep 5

Some wildflowers have seed heads that are truly spectacular! The challenge this week is to find some and then share your lovely pics for #WildflowerHour this Sunday 8-9pm using the hashtag #SeedHeads! Any wild or naturalised blooms you find too are of course always welcome!

The gorgeous seed head of Wild Carrot is just as stunning as the gorgeous flowers! Can you find a spectacular seed head for this Sunday’s #wildflowerhour?

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Joni Cook @cookjonil.bsky.social · Sep 1

Thanks Sue!

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