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concretebotany.bsky.social
Bull Thistle (Cirsium vulgare) growing out of the street, shot on 8/8/25.
#Weeds #UrbanWeeds #StreetWeeds
January 20, 2026 at 7:47 PM
concretebotany.bsky.social
Gutter Catnip (Nepeta cataria) shot yesterday.
#StreetWeeds #UrbanWildflowers
November 3, 2025 at 7:25 PM
concretebotany.bsky.social
Tufted Knotweed (Persicaria cespitosa) shot yesterday in Lower Moyamensing.
#Weeds #StreetWeeds #UrbanWildflowers
October 22, 2025 at 3:27 PM
concretebotany.bsky.social
Gutter Catnip (Nepeta cataria) shot yesterday.
#StreetWeeds #UrbanWildflowers
October 15, 2025 at 10:19 PM
concretebotany.bsky.social
You have to be careful walking around South Philly. You never know when you might step in some Bull Thistle (Cirsium vulgare). Shot 2 days ago.
#Weeds #UrbanWeeds #StreetWeeds
September 11, 2025 at 7:16 PM
concretebotany.bsky.social
Jimsonweed (Datura stramonium) growing out of East Moyamensing Avenue, just north of Snyder, shot today.
#StreetWeeds
August 20, 2025 at 11:20 PM
bathnature.bsky.social
#StreetWeeds and #PavementPlants from Mount Road, Southdown #Bath #Somerset #UK, life persisting in one of the most extreme habitats: the human built environment
#nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #ukwildlife #bathnature #ukinsects #urbanwildlife #botany #wildflowers #flowers
Great Willowherb - two pink flowers by a road Field Madder - small plant with spiky leaves and small pale-purple flowers Yarrow - plant with small white flowers Hedge Bedstraw - plant with small white flowers
August 13, 2025 at 7:09 AM
concretebotany.bsky.social
Hairy Crabgrass (Digitaria sanguinalis) growing out of the street-curb, shot today. Crabgrass is not nearly as common as Indian Goosegrass (Eleusine indica) which is sometimes mistaken for it.
#UrbanGrasses #UrbanWeeds #StreetWeeds
July 23, 2025 at 6:28 PM
bathnature.bsky.social
Street weeds and pavement plants on #Twerton High Street, #Bath #Somerset #UK - Musk Mallow, Mexican Fleabane, Bittersweet and Shepherd's Purse.
#nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #pavementplants #ukwildlife #streetweeds #bathnature #urbanwildlife #urbanbotany #botany
A Musk Mallow plant with pink flower growing at the base of a wall Mexican Fleabane - daisy-like flowers, growing by a wall Bittersweet flowers - purple flowers with yellow centres growing over a road Shepherd's Purse - a small plant growing out of a pavement
July 22, 2025 at 7:11 AM
bathnature.bsky.social
Thick-legged hoverfly (Syritta pipiens) on an Oxford Ragwort, growing out of a pavement on #Twerton High Street, #Bath #Somerset #UK.
#nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #ukwildlife #bathnature #ukinsects #streetweeds #urbanwildlife #urbanbotany #botany #pavementplants
A hoverfly on a yellow flower
July 21, 2025 at 9:30 PM
bathnature.bsky.social
Common Motherwort (Leonurus cardiaca) growing out of a wall in #Twerton, #Bath #Somerset #UK.
#nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #twerton #ukwildlife #bathnature #ukinsects #streetweeds #urbanwildlife #urbanbotany
A plant growing out of a stone wall
July 19, 2025 at 9:08 PM
concretebotany.bsky.social
A particularly bushy Goosegrass (Eleusine indica) shot back on the 14th of this month.
#StreetWeeds #UrbanGrasses #UrbanWeeds
June 24, 2025 at 9:04 PM
concretebotany.bsky.social
Common Catsear (Hypochaeris radicata) growing out of a street gutter, shot 2 days ago.
#StreetWeeds
June 18, 2025 at 4:44 PM
concretebotany.bsky.social
Petunia, Small Crumbweed, Wormseed, Purslane & an unidentified grass in a Lower Moyamensing street gutter, shot yesterday.
#Weeds #StreetWeeds #UrbanWeeds
June 15, 2025 at 8:16 PM
concretebotany.bsky.social
Tumble #Pigweed (Amaranthus albus) aka Tumbleweed Amaranth, shot yesterday in East Oregon.
#StreetWeeds #UrbanWeeds
June 14, 2025 at 5:08 PM
concretebotany.bsky.social
Ivy-Leaved Morning Glory (Ipomoea hederacea) growing out of a street curb in Whitman, shot today.
#StreetWeeds
June 9, 2025 at 8:52 PM
concretebotany.bsky.social
Green Foxtail (Setaria viridis) growing out of Front Street in Whitman, shot yesterday.
#UrbanWeeds #StreetWeeds
June 7, 2025 at 2:14 PM
concretebotany.bsky.social
Redshank (Persicaria maculosa) growing along a street curb, shot yesterday.
#StreetWeeds #UrbanWeeds
June 6, 2025 at 4:19 PM
concretebotany.bsky.social
Redshank (Persicaria maculosa) shot late last month.
#StreetWeeds #UrbanWeeds
June 5, 2025 at 1:08 AM
concretebotany.bsky.social
Bigbract Verbena (Verbena bracteata) as a gutterweed, growing in the street at a corner access ramp in Whitman, shot today.
#StreetWeeds
June 3, 2025 at 3:32 PM
concretebotany.bsky.social
Bigbract Verbena (Verbena bracteata) flourishing in the street along the curb somewhere in Whitman, shot last Monday.
#StreetWeeds
May 28, 2025 at 2:20 PM
concretebotany.bsky.social
Jimsonweed (Datura stramonium) down on the corner of Snyder and Moyamensing, obviously from seeds washed down from the tree box where I have been shooting a population of them.
#Jimsonweed #Weeds #StreetWeeds #GutterWeeds
May 23, 2025 at 12:36 PM
concretebotany.bsky.social
Hedge Smartweed (Fallopia scandens), sans hedge, shot last Monday sprawling out on a Whitman street.
#Weeds #StreetWeeds #UrbanWeeds
May 22, 2025 at 8:57 PM
concretebotany.bsky.social
The local Dysphanias: Wormseed (Dysphania ambrosioides) to the left and Small Crumbweed (Dysphania pumilio) to the right.
#UrbanBotany #UrbanWeeds #StreetWeeds
May 17, 2025 at 2:27 PM
concretebotany.bsky.social
Most of the time, Virginia Creeper (Parthenocissus quinquefolia) grows up to the light, but I guess not always.
Shot yesterday.
#Weeds #StreetWeeds
May 1, 2025 at 1:59 PM