Flowers and fruits of Greater Stitchwort from Cornwall today for #wildflowerhour

Stellaria holostea

Small sky blue forget me nots

Forget me nots of the smaller variety. #WildflowerHour

Subterranean Clover, Trifolium subterraneum on the common today #wildflowerhour

Cuckooflower (Cardamine pratensis).

Garlic Mustard (Alliaria petiolata).

Cuckooflower and Garlic Mustard in the spring sunshine for #wildflowerhour #CabbageFamily challenge.

Find a flower with 4 free petals arranged in a cross shape & you’ve found a member of the Brassicaceae! It’s a huge family & the challenge this week for #Wildflowerhour is to find a wild or naturalised member of the #CabbageFamily in flower. Share your finds this Sunday 8-9pm!

Two female botanists stand by a lake, with grassland behind; they are smiling, holding aquatic plants they have fished out of the lake for identification

We're looking to recruit a manager for 2 fabulous botanical projects in Ireland:
#AquaticPlantProject
#IrishGrasslandProject
You'll be coordinating expert-led field events & developing training materials for botanists at all skill levels.
2 days per week.
Apply by 25 May:
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Rehabilitation of the Dandelion!
No other plant in the Netherlands attracts as many bee species: 107. In early spring, when nothing else is blooming, it is simply there. Meadow bird chicks that have just hatched depend on the insects that are drawn to dandelions. No dandelion, no insect, no chick.

This year the BSBI launched the 100 Plants in 2026 Challenge - a project encouraging brand new botanists and recorders to identify their first 100 plants this year and to submit the records.

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It's been about three months now, so how is it going?

#Wildflowerhour #WoodlandPlants In Wye Valley woodlands near Monmouth the Bluebells are abundant.
Hyacinthoides non-scripta

I don't need much persuading to go on a #WoodlandPlant hunt! This week's #WildflowerHour challenge gave me the perfect excuse this afternoon to go and check on my local Early Purple Orchids, Orchis mascula. They are just getting going, but there was one beautiful stand out specimen. 😍

#WoodlandPlants in ancient woodland in N. Wilts. for #WildflowerHour: Moschatel, Greater Stichwort, Goldilocks Buttercup, Primrose, Wood Spurge, Toothwort, Wood Sedge, Common Dog-violet, Wood Sorrel & Bluebell. @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

Wood-sorrel, Oxalis acetosella.

Wood-sorrel, Oxalis acetosella.

#Wildflowerhour #WoodlandPlants #Rutland #flowers #VC55

Wood Anemone lining the banks of a stream in ancient woodland, Leicestershire.

A carpet of Bluebells with a stream in the foreground.

Beautiful scenes of Wood Anemones and Bluebells in ancient woodland. #WoodlandPlants #wildflowerhour

Pictured is the beautiful Wood Sorrel, Oxalis acetosella. Many of the gorgeous plants to be found in woodland are ancient woodland indicators, as they grow and spread slowly over many years. Why not visit your local patch and see what you can find for #wildflowerhour this Sunday 8-9pm!

What can you find flowering in woodland? That’s the challenge this week from Wildflowerhour! Post your finds using the hashtag #WoodlandPlants for #WildflowerHour this Sunday 8-9pm. Happy flower-hunting!

On an overcast and breezy afternoon the first Pasqueflowers of the year were unfurling at Barnack Hills and Holes NNR, their purple petals backed with soft silvery hairs, the blooms emerging from a finely dissected, downy, purplish-green ruff.

#wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Cowslips on a verge locally, in Berkshire #CowslipChallenge #WildflowerHour

Hairy Violet (Viola hirta) growing amongst Common Rock-rose #WildflowerHour today in the Yorkshire Dales

Cuckooflower flowers

More Cuckooflower is also flowering #WildflowerHour

A Wood Anemone, Anemone nemerosa, in the village woods this afternoon. #wildflowerhour

For this week's #WildflowerHour #CowslipChallenge, here is a comparison of Cowslip and Oxlip.
Taken on the same day at an ancient Cambs. woodland this week.
I posted an Oxlip photo in the British Wildflowers FB group, and many commented that they were Cowslips!
@wildflowerhour.bsky.social

White flowers of Wild Cherry (Prunus avium).

Wild Cherry in ancient woodland, Leicestershire. #wildflowerhour

Have you seen a Cowslip in bloom this year? This week’s challenge is to find one and share your pics for #wildflowerhour this Sunday using the hashtag #CowslipChallenge. Happy flower hunting! 💛

Close up of a garlic mustard plant in flower.

Garlic mustard spotted on one of my walks this week. 🤍💚

#WildflowerHour

Trees flowering in Northumberland this week for #WildflowerHour There are catkins on the black popla trees, with the red male catkins and the female green catkins on separate trees. Bunches of green flowers on the Norway maples and white blossom on the blackthorns #treeflowers

Blackthorn tree flowers

Blackthorn tree flowers

Blackthorn continues to flower #TreeFlowers #WildflowerHour

Close-up of male flowers of Yew (Taxus baccata).

Male flowers of Yew (Taxus baccata) for #wildflowerhour #treeflowers challenge. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Sometimes when we are botanising we can forget to look up! Which would be a shame as #treeflowers are both fascinating & beautiful! This week’s challenge is to go looking for wild & naturalised trees that are blooming. Share your finds for #WildflowerHour this Sunday 8-9pm!

it is nice to see a botanical rediscovery making the news like this!

Name That Plant is an amazing #WildFlowerID resource created by @milneorchid.bsky.social!
The website namethatplant.org is built on a photo library of >2,700 plant taxa.
We were delighted when Richard very kindly agreed to let us use those fabulous images on the new BSBI website: bsbi.org/plants!

A bright pink Herb Robert flower against a greenish wooden fence.

Herb Robert as an insect repellent. “The herb bruised and applied to places infested with Bugs, is said by Linnæus to drive them away” (William Curtis, ‘Flora Londinensis’, 1777-98). #StoryPlants #WildflowerHour