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.

Upright Chickweed Moenchia erecta and Subterranean Clover Trifolium subterraneum. South Hampshire. BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland

A front garden full of Cuckoo flower, Cardamine pratensis down my road. Shame about the bins. BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland

Today at last Sorbus torminalis, and in a strip of old woodland shown on 1st OS map of 1834 so maybe truly wild Wild Service tree. In Bedfordshire tetrad TL14H which fits with my copy of John Dony's Beds Plant Atlas! Sadly not in flower yet. #TreeFlowers BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland

A few things from the arable fields near Cowfold, low weald clays. I don't see these things often, because I rarely walk in this sort of habitat. Moehringia trinervia, Three-nerved Sandwort; Cerastium glomeratum, Sticky Mouse-Ear; Alopecurus pratensis Meadow Foxtail BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland

How we use our land without damage is explored today at the BES Policy #LandUseSummit . The multifunctional value of floodplain meadows & the work of Floodplain Meadows is on display as part of the conversation of the role of ecologists with land use. bit.ly/3xDvEgm

The beautiful, fascinating, plateaud top of Newtimber Hill, West Sussex. The oakwoods, mostly, are gone - but the bluebells remain. Sussex Wildlife Trust 🦔 Woodland Trust🌳 South Downs National Park National Trust

Assisted migration of wych elm in Scotland around the Beauly Elm, seeking elm population recovery. Nice work by @RBGE_Science
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Some pretty and wild primroses are filling the woodland floor with colour 🌿💛🌿

#ThePhotoHour #Wildflowers #botany BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland

Dr M still going wild! Botanical University Challenge BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland Thanks for all the positive feedback. Good news FF&PP is being reprinted. So a quick shout has anyone spotted any problems that need correcting?

Much Mousetail Myosurus minimus makes me merry. South Hampshire today. BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland

A rather pretty white form of Herb-robert (Geranium robertianum) spotted on the street today made for a nice change from the norm. #urbanflora

Coming into flower (and last years fruits) of Wild Service Trees, Sorbus torminalis, around Cowfold in the Low Weald of Sussex. Sorbus torminalis is now confined to ancient woodlands and hedges, especially on heavy clay soils. Woodland Trust🌳 BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland Sussex Botanical Recording Society

Hybrid trees give hope in push to revive elm species bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Spring rolls on. First Celery-leaved Buttercup of the year, and the Cuckooflower is perhaps at it's peak just now, as are the Marsh Marigolds. At YWT Potteric Carr

Bluebells looking good.

Certainly at peak Dandelion on the roads round me, some areas are more yellow than green!

Last spring these would have been look up to the sky, Hawthorn #treeflowers this spring they are brought down to earth, laid hedge flowers #wildflowerhour

Wild Strawberry #wildflowerhour

Cowslip growing on an East Devon roadside verge this week. #Devon #wildflowers BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland #nature wildflowerhour

Large clump of Solomon's-seal, Polygonatum multiflorum, in Natural England - Sussex and Kent Team Cow and Harry's Woods SSSI NymansNT West Sussex. Possibly native; probably escaped from cultivation. Whatever; very beautiful. BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland

An audience and interesting array of garden escapes on today's #urbanflora trip to Killingworth. At least 3x Muscari to ogle later plus a new invader in Fringecups (Tellima grandiflora) 😬🌱