Can you tell your Buttercups from your Daises? Learn how to identify wildflowers in this full day workshop on Saturday 15th June with the BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland

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The 2025 Orchids of Rhodes tour qualifies for our £125 early bird discount should it be booked before 30 November 2024, and is guaranteed to generate a donation to our friends at BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland to support their important conservation research work. Everyone's a winner! 🥊

Jack really did go to bed at noon!
Goatsbeard (Tragopogon pratensis), on a roadside verge in Co Longford.
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Splendid bit of #NoMowMay going on near Conwy Castle, with the sward of daisies and buttercups nicely edged with Field Madder Plantlife BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland wildflowerhour

Seaside Daisy (Erigeron glaucus) on St Mary's, Scilly where it has spread from gardens and is doing very well. BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland @Naturetrek

Some lovely Briza media (Quaking Grass) now in flower at an old quarry outside Moycullen! One of my favourite grasses! Juniperus communis also beginning to take in limestone areas! BotanyPlantScience Irish Semi-natural Grasslands

Heath Pearlwort, a member of the #PinkFamily for #wildflowerhour . Particularly chuffed with this as first record for Stirlingshire since 1998 😁

12/5/24 Cumbria - I snuck off to look for Moonwort #Ferns (Botrychium lunaria) and found only the one that I saw last week. However, I did find a large patch of Lesser Adder's Tongue (Ophioglossum azoricum), a rather rare plant. And one I didn't know grew here... #wildflowerhour

On the way to see wet heathland in Herts yesterday with Flora Group, and we stopped by to see the Greater Broomrape (Orobanche rapum-genistae) on an arable edge. Only just unfurling so will get really big later in the season. Stunning!

Mossy saxifrage. #wildflowerhour Garron.

Star of Bethlehem, Sticky Catchfly (Edinburgh City & County adopted flower and in ENHS logo) & Forked Spleenwort (rare in England & probably not common in Scotland) made up for my upset at rampant dog in Hunter's Bog earlier. Holyrood Ranger Gordon BSBI Scotland BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland

Sea Kale looking fine at Stokes Bay Gosport yesterday afternoon in horrible conditions. ⁦BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland⁩ ⁦Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust⁩

Came across a Fly Orchid meeting this evening, plus some apple-green Common Twayblades (who always look like they've spilt drink down their fronts). Central Hampshire. Wild Orchids UK & Ireland BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland

Great day with Louise BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland exploring a precious species-rich hay meadow (Leics. & Rutland WT) in Rutland, notable species were Common Milkwort (Polygala vulgaris L.), Saw-wort (Serratula tinctoria), Adder's-tongue (Ophioglossum vulgatum) & Pepper-saxifrage (Silaum silaus).

A damp afternoon of fieldwork in Middleton Woods nr Ilkley with the Leeds University Conservation MSc students, working on id skills and recording NVC quadrats.

The non-native Large-leaved Wood Avens Geum macrophyllum is doing worryingly well...

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The Norfolk orchid madness continues - now Northern Marsh Orchid has been found! Rather out of range to say the least! Unfortunately on private land so not accessible. BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland Britain's Orchids

At last the first of our colony of bee orchids has begun to flower on a warm sunny verge near to where visitors pass by at WWT Slimbridge Slimbridge Sightings BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland wildflowerhour Britain's Orchids

Plenty of other arctic-alpine specialists too. Moss campion, mtn sorrel, roseroot & Lloydia Plantlife Plantlife Cymru Cofnod The Wild Flower Society BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland BSBI Wales Cwm Idwal Eryri National Park (Snowdonia)

Behind railings or next to a rodent control box, this yellow Ivy Broomrape Orobanche hederae f. monochroa likes to brighten up everyday urban dullness. Winchester, Hampshire. BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland

The total number of early spiders counted at #SamphireHoe this year was 1720

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