I found a few bunches of Purple Saxifrage still out in the Angus Glens over the weekend. #wildflowerhour

The first arctic-alpine flowers of the year are still in full bloom in Corrie Sharroch, Angus, as the snow retreats from the high-altitude botanical hotspots: Purple #Saxifrage (Saxifraga oppositifolia) & Downy #Willow (Salix lapponum). #WildflowerHour

Signs of spring in the mountains - the bizarre bulbous shoots of Roseroot, poking out from a crack in a rock face!
A member of the stonecrop family, it will develop bright yellow clusters of flowers that adorn crags and gullies. #wildflowerhour
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Purple Saxifrage on Stob Binnein, Perthshire! One of our earliest flowering mountain plants, and in my opinion one of the best! Every spring I fall in love with it all over again 😍
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Who doesn't love a Cowslip?!
These fine flowers on a bank in Stirling, looking sharp 😍 #CowslipChallenge #wildflowerhour
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For #WildflowerHour
This week's challenge = #CowslipChallenge
I'm happy with that
By Union Canal, Wester Hailes, Edinburgh, Scotland.
#cowslip #Primulaveris #wildflower #MacroHour #ThePhotoHour #UnionCanal #WesterHailes #Edinburgh #Scotland #Scotland IsNow

My favourite flower just now, White Deadnettle, hiding the centipede shoes from the fairies. I only learned this wee story a couple of years ago. BSBI Scotland BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland ENHS

Want to up your plant identification skills this summer? BSBI Scotland has a plethora of events to offer this year! 🌿🌷

From beginners to advanced students, there's something for everyone, but BOOKING IS ESSENTIAL so grab your place now.

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Happy Primrose Day! lets not forget everyone's favourite: Scottish Primroses!

this tiny flower is endemic to a small area in the very north of Scotland, in Caithness, Sutherland and Orkney.

Championed in Scottish Parliament by Liam McArthur MSP ^_^

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George & I had an easy local walk around Townhill Loch this morning, dull & cold still. No new birds, but the plants were grand. 👍

Purple Toothwort (Lathraea clandestina), parasitic on Willow/Poplar, seen yesterday on my walk along River Esk, upstream from #Musselburgh . The only insect I saw all afternoon was this I think a White-tailed #Bumblebee Bumblebee Conservation Trust BSBI Scotland ENHS Friends of Musselburgh Links

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Don't miss this upcoming Plantlife Families Workshop from BSBI Scotland on 18 May in Dunfermline!

£40 per person (50% discount for BSBI member and full-time students)⚠️BOOKING IS ESSENTIAL⚠️

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Fantastic news for the 'Last Ent' of Affric! 👏

Glen Affric's lone wych elm tree has 35 new seedlings for company - thanks to a propagation collaboration between Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Forestry and Land Scotland and UHI.

Good luck to the new recruits! 🌱🌳

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⚠️ Have you seen American skunk cabbage in the Cromarty Firth, Ness or Beauly catchments? 🌱
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Taking part in National Plant Monitoring Scheme this year?
You'll find Lords & Ladies in woodlands across most of UK apart from northern Scotland & a few other places where (intriguingly) it's absent.
Want to learn more about this wild plant?
Check its #PlantAtlas2020 page: plantatlas2020.org/atlas/2cd4p9h.…

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.

Really pleased to finally find myself some Tunbridge filmy fern (Hymenophyllum tunbrigense) out in Morvern. The bluish tint, deeply divided lobes, veins stopping just before the edge of the leaf & those lovely, jagged indusium valves!

Spent yesterday seeking dandelions by the River Dee. Some 'normal' plants coming into flower including natives such as lady's smock and non-natives such as grape hyacinth. The shocking thing about the non-natives is how many seem to be recently planted: de-wilding in action!

Dovesfoot cranesbill , danish scurvy grass and common whitlowgrass all at a small harbour this week - east coast Scotland #wildflowerhour

The woodland at Humbie Church is carpeted at the moment by Great wood-rush - does this qualify as a flower ? #ID and also these gorgeous miniscule Blaeberries in flower #WildFlowerHour wildflowerhour BSBI Scotland