A fab #WildFlowerHour !
Thanks to everyone who shared pix, whether of rarities like Richard Milne's Draba aizioides👇or of our lovely Dandelions which support so many species of wildlife!
Hope you enjoyed #DandelionChallenge & #InternationalDayoftheDandelion
See you next Sunday!

Herb Paris (Paris quadrifolia), Dorset. One of my favourites #wildflowerhour
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Sanicle and some particularly purple Wood Anemone at the farthest point on the floodplain #wildflowerhour

A young Bugle (Ajuga reptans) starting to unfurl its downy purple flowers 💜
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Happy #InternationalDayoftheDandelion #wildflowerhour The beauty of dandelions: early morning frost (past two weeks). Their strength: (with Butterbur) growing through tarmac footpath (new last year) Langcliffe YNU ACE Settle wildflowerhour #30DaysWild from The Wildlife Trusts Dandelion Appreciation Society

Ground flora in Hazelwoods including a huge amount of Toothwort. #wildflowerhour

If you go down to the woods today....

Wild garlic, garlic mustard, yellow archangel and crab apple
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Pink sorrel testing the weather. #WildflowerHour

There are over 200 species of Dandelions in the UK, and together, they provide early emerging pollinators such as this male Orange-tip butterfly and bees with a vital source of nector.

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A delightful group of Dandelions for #wildflowerhour , growing in upland calcareous grassland in Stirlingshire. Charming plants!
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Toothwort. An elusive plant I've only seen a few times but always a good one for the keen eyed #wildflowerhour #wildflowers wildflowerhour

Pellitory-of-the-wall. #WildflowerHour

Bush vetch & Common carder #bumblebee #wildflowerhour

Spring Cinquefoil (Potentilla verna) on the magnesium limestone of #yorkshire #wildflowerhour ⁦BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland⁩

Orchis mascula, Early Purple Orchid, growing on a slope in a local quarry, a new place for me to see these beauties , about 100 flowers and loads more rosettes to flower #wildflowerhour

Working in Peterborough this week so took the opportunity for an evening visit to Barnack to see the Pasqueflowers. Never disappoints. #wildflowerhour

wildflowerhour And some from the week, Coastal Oak woods and New Forest lawns with Black Spleenwort, Heath Milkwort, Upright Chickweed, Creeping Willow, Common Lousewort and Sheeps-sorrel. Early-purple and English Scurvygrass. #Wildflowerhour

Spring has really been sproinging! So many lovely wildflowers this week for wildflowerhour!
1. Cardamine pratensis, lady's smock
2. Senecio squalidus, Oxford ragwort (with thriving Marchantia polymorpha!)
3. Pedicularis sylvatica, lousewort
4. Polygala, milkwort

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Yesterday was a day for immersion in Early Purple Orchids Orchis mascula. A population of at least 500 plants in this tucked-away woodland valley in East Hampshire. BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland #wildflowerhour