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The home of #WildflowerHour: 8-9pm every Sunday. Wild Flowers you find across Britain & Ireland in the last week. The biggest cheerleader for our wild plants! Posts by @botanybeck.bsky.social https://wildflowerhouruk.weebly.com/

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wildflowerhour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social · 3d

A wonderful #wildflowerhour! It’s getting a little harder to spot those blooms but still plenty to be found in some places! A mild week ahead will they still be in flower next Sunday……..?

David Harris @cycle4nature.bsky.social · 3d

Still a lot in bloom near Cambridge - all taken on a couple of bike rides.
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Dandelion, Great Mullein, Hedge Woundwort, Chicory, Musk Mallow, Hedgerow Crane's-bill & Common Mallow;
Common Stork's-bill, Field Scabious, Brown Knapweed, Oyeye Daisy, Viper's Bugloss;
Bristly Oxtongue, gorgeous pink Yarrow;
Baby Toadflax (?), Red Clover, Common Road flax, Lesser Calamint, Creeping Cinquefoil, White Dead-nettle;
Ragwort, Daisy, Buttercup, White Campion, Field Speedwell, Fleabane, Musk (?) Mallow.

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wildflowerhour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social · 3d

A wonderful #wildflowerhour! It’s getting a little harder to spot those blooms but still plenty to be found in some places! A mild week ahead will they still be in flower next Sunday……..?

David Harris @cycle4nature.bsky.social · 3d

Still a lot in bloom near Cambridge - all taken on a couple of bike rides.
#WildflowerHour
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Dr Jill Whitelock @jillwhitelock.bsky.social · 3d

Sweet violet flowering again in Ely. #WildflowerHour

Close-up side view of a deep purple Sweet violet flower against a blurred green background.

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Donna Rainey @donnarainey4.bsky.social · 3d

Every year in this local Hazelwood,there are early flowering Wood anemone. This only happens in a small area of the wood. #wildflowerhour

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Dave @sylvatica2024.bsky.social · 3d

One of around 100 Common Dog Violets flowering on a south facing grassy bank near Launceston today for #wildflowerhour

Viola riviniana

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Ian Beavis @ianbeavis.bsky.social · 3d

Black Nightshade on Rusthall Common #wildflowerhour

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Neil Forbes @treebeard793.bsky.social · 3d

Earlier this year we published a summary of our short-term study of the apparent changing phenology of Sabulina verna, Spring Sandwort, at #Arnside Knott in @bsbibotany.bsky.social News. Had a quick visit yesterday and it was by some margin the most abundant flowering species.
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Sabulina verna, Spring Sandwort.
Arnside Knott, Heathwaite

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Peter Sketch @petersketch.bsky.social · 3d

Last one for this week, a close-up of Water Mint at the edge of the lake at Jubilee Lake, Wootton Bassett, this afternoon after the football. I love the minty smell of these plants when you walk through a patch of them in high summer. #WildflowerHour

A cluster of small, very pale purple flowers at the top of a plant with green pointy leaves.

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Alison L @alisonlock25.bsky.social · 3d

Honesty and borage , familiar garden escapees still colourfully flowering this week -east central Scotland #wildflowerhour

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Pam McInnes @pammcinnes.bsky.social · 3d

#Wildflowerhour Some of my finds in N. Lancs and N. Yorks this week. Red Clover, Shaggy Soldier, Herb Robert, Knapweed, Harebell, Lady's Bedstraw and Tormentil.

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mattrjones.bsky.social @mattrjones.bsky.social · 3d

Some fabulous stands of Hog's Fennel (Peucedanum officinale) in Kent including many hosting the rust fungus Puccinia rugulosa 😍 #wildflowerhour

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Naomi in the lanes @naomiinthelanes.bsky.social · 3d

A chicory endive (apparently!) and a red clover from a walk this week #wildflowerHour

A single, pale blue, chicory endive flower and its leaves (beyond the tight focus on the flower) below it.

A single red clover - actually more lilac!

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Ian Senior @ians4ad.bsky.social · 3d

Green nightshade from yesterday's Norfolk Flora group meeting @bsbibotany.bsky.social #wildflowerhour

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Neil Forbes @treebeard793.bsky.social · 3d

Lesser trefoil, Trirolium dubium. Another late-flowering species on the species-rich grasslands (some of the finest in the country) at Heathwaite, #Arnside Knott.
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#Cumbria

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mattrjones.bsky.social @mattrjones.bsky.social · 3d

Spiked Speedwell (Veronica spicata) and Bristol Rock Cress (Arabis scabra) from the Avon gorge last weekend 😍 It had been a far too long since I last explored those magical slopes #wildflowerhour

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Roger_TL45Y @rogerhorton.bsky.social · 3d

Flossflower, Ageratum houstonianum, making a break for it in Abbey Gardens #BuryStEdmunds as a #PavementPlant.
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Ian Senior @ians4ad.bsky.social · 3d

Red bistort escaped into a road edge on yesterday's Norfolk Flora group meeting @bsbibotany.bsky.social #wildflowerhour

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chloelewis.bsky.social @chloelewis.bsky.social · 3d

Thinking, as I post these hedgerow berries, of Diane Purkiss' excellent chapter on foraging in her book 'English Food, a people's history' which she discusses in this interview with @neilbuttery.bsky.social:

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Hawthorn berries, foreground, bracken and a grass path leading to a grove of oak + hawthorn atop the iron age earthworks, Roborough Down, Dartmoor, Devon.

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Roger_TL45Y @rogerhorton.bsky.social · 3d

One a several well established plants of Black Nightshade, Solanum nigrum, in Abbey Gardens #BuryStEdmunds #Suffolk.
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Daniel Brown @danjbrown97.bsky.social · 3d

Hedge woundwort at Winnall Moors on Wednesday, fleabane at Lakeside Country Park on Tuesday and yellow pimpernel on a walk from Culverley in the New Forest today. #WildflowerHour

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Neil Forbes @treebeard793.bsky.social · 3d

Suaeda maritima, Annual Sea-blite. A pioneer #saltmarsh species that plays a key role in denitrification of soils, and also provides an abundance seeds for wintering passerines and wildfowl.
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johnfen1.bsky.social @johnfen1.bsky.social · 3d

Popping the last of its buttons. This Tansy clump has been centre stage on a small area of urban lakeside grass that I have refrained from mowing for the last five years #WildFlowerHour

Bright button like yellow flowers of Tansy against a background of its own still green leaves and browning senescent stems and blurred lake horizon.

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Wylie Horn @wyliehorn.bsky.social · 3d

Round-leaved Fluellen, Kickxia spuria, in an arable field near Kingston Bagpuize, Oxfordshire. Some of the plants had an unusually tubulate form of flowers (caused by Pelorism? - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelorism ) #WildflowerHour #botany

Tubulate form of round-leaved fluellen flowers alongside the more typical strongly zygomorphic, 2-lipped, with narrowly conical spur at base, with mouth completely closed by boss-like swelling on lower lip, flowers. The flowers are predominantly yellow with a purple upper lip. The plant is prostrate with hairy ovate leaves. Earth is visible under the plant.

The more typical strongly zygomorphic, 2-lipped, with narrowly conical spur at base, with mouth completely closed by boss-like swelling on lower lip, flowers. The flowers are predominantly yellow with a purple upper lip. The plant is prostrate with hairy ovate leaves. Earth is visible under the plant.

A side by side comparison of the tubulate and normal forms of round-leaved fluellen flowers with a human thumbnail in the picture for scale.

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An Beainín Uasal @beainin-uasal.bsky.social · 3d

Fraoch na haon chose / St Dabeoc's Heath brightening up the day in North Connemara in County Galway for #WildflowerHour

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Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social · 3d

The leaves of this beech are beginning to brown, its nuts ripening inside their bristly husks ... Full autumn in Warden #Northumberland
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By the field's edge, a beech copse on a sunlit autumn afternoon

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mattrjones.bsky.social @mattrjones.bsky.social · 3d

Leersia oryzoides (Cut Grass) 😍 First plant in the BSBI handbook, has always felt like a bit of a mythical species. I finally made the trip down to meet this incredible plant at Amberley Wildbrooks last week. #wildflowerhour

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