Can you help Rebecca Cornwell Rebecca Cornwell? She's working with UHI Institute for Northern Studies MountainStudiesUHI & Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh to research how historical writings about Shetland's wild plants eg Shetland Mouse-ear 👇 help shape our modern understanding of rare plant ecology & how this informs conservation.

I recently visited a known site for Lady Clermont's Spleenwort, Asplenium x clermontiae. This hybrid between Wall-rue (A. ruta-muraria) and Maidenhair Spleenwort (A. trichomanes) is surprisingly rare, given how common the parents are, and is known from only two sites in Britain.

Rydyn ni'n cyflogi!
Oes gennych chi'r sgiliau, y profiad a'r brwdfrydedd i ddod yn Swyddog Cymru newydd i ni?
I helpu i gyflawni ein prosiect Planhigion Blaenoriaeth mewn SoDdGAoedd sy’n cael ei gyllido gan #RhwydweithiauNatur ?
Am y rôl & Sut i wneud cais:
bsbi.org/wales-officer-…

We're hiring!
Do you have the skills, experience & enthusiasm to become our new Wales Officer?
To help deliver our #NatureNetworks funded Priority Plants on SSSIs project ?
Check out the job description & apply before 21st April:
bsbi.org/wales-officer-…
#RhwydweithiauNatur

We’re delighted to have been awarded funding from the #NatureNetworks Programme to run our Priority Plants on SSSIs project in Wales over the next two years. This is being delivered by Cronfa Treftadaeth y Loteri Genedlaethol, on behalf of Welsh Government Climate Change

If someone told you they had raised, say, a dodo, or a dinosaur, you’d find it hard to believe, but Andrew Shaw has done just that – resurrected an extinct species. 

How one man resurrected a rare plant after 20 years of extinction ⬇️ gardensillustrated.com/gardens/garden…

Chuffed to have reached third place in the first round of #BUC2024 ! 10/10 on the plant ID round 🍐

Do you love England's #wildflowers ?
Keen to support the botanical recording community across England?
Got the skills, experience & enthusiasm to become our new England Officer?
Time's running out for you to apply for your #dreamjob !
Apply before 11th Feb: bsbi.org/vacancies/vaca…

Calling #plantscience undergrads, academics & amateur researchers across Britain & Ireland: the window to apply for a BSBI grant for plant study or scientific research closes at midnight on 31 Jan.
Visit our Grants page bsbi.org/grants to check the criteria & apply asap!

Garden Lady’s-mantle Alcemilla mollis is an attractive garden plant native to the Carpathians where it is uncommon. In Britain it has become super abundant since it was first recorded in the wild in 1948. Why is it a problem? A thread 1/7

We're hiring!
Do you have the skills, experience & enthusiasm to become our new England Officer?
To help support & nurture our wonderful botanical community across England?
Check out the job description & apply before 11th February:
bsbi.org/vacancies/vaca…

We've updated the website recently. As the focus is on updating the RPR we'll be posting monthly lists of plants to look for.
Members can access the historical records & sign up for RPR emails.
Check it out and sign up!
BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland wildflowerhour Sussex Wildlife Trust 🦔

“The woman who spent Christmas in search of a rare plant”

Beautiful article about Rosemary Parslow, who has been a titanic force for good for botany and conservation in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly since the 50s. bbc.com/news/science-e…

Found this fabulous wall in Sidmouth on yesterday's #NewYearPlantHunt . As well as the usual suspects, Mexican Fleabane, Ivy-leaved Toadflax, and Trailing Bellflower. I also found Pink Persicaria- Persicaria capitata and Mexican Cigar Plant- Cuphea ignea! BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland

Eight intrepid botanists & 41 species found in flower during today’s rather wet #NewYearPlantHunt Leatherhead Surrey today. Erophila verna Common Whitlow-grass, Lamium purpureum Red Dead-nettle & Ficaria verna Lesser Celandine. River Mole very high! #urbanbotany
#citizenscience

We clocked up an impressive 41 species in flower today during our #NewYearPlantHunt BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland in Stirling city centre. Could ours be the longest list in Scotland this year?!? A great day out with a super bunch of folks; thanks Matt Harding BSBI Scotland!🤩🥳👀

Day Two of #NewYearPlantHunt : botanists of all ages were out in force, hunting in groups, with friends & family or going solo.
6747 records uploaded, 710 surveys, 439 wild or naturalised species recorded in bloom: nyph.bsbi.org/results.php
Day Two summary: bsbipublicity.blogspot.com/2023/12/new-ye…

There were plenty of tiny plants on our #NewYearPlantHunt , including Field Madder, Field Woundwort, Common Whitlowgrass & Danish Scurvygrass.

I think the highlight of my year might have happened at the very last minute - I'm delighted these spotter sheets have proved useful! Total team effort with Sarah Woods and Louise BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland #NewYearPlantHunt

Don't forget - if you're stuck on a plant ID and have a photo or two, then we can help - either email the support team or post the photo here and tag it #WildflowerID