Ranscombe Farm Warden, Ben Sweeney, showing a large patch of Meadow Clary to members of thw Breckland Flora Group.

Purple flowers of Corncockle and red flowers of Common Poppy in Longhoes Field.

Members of the Breckland Flora group in Longhoes Field, with several bending down to get a better look at the plants.

Tremendous day spent with the #Breckland Flora Group on their visit to Ranscombe Farm. Great discussions about all things arable and botanical!
#arableplants #KentNature #KentBotany
@plantlifeuk.bsky.social @billsutherland.bsky.social

Isn't this a fabulous sight: Orlaya grandiflora, Cyanus segetum and Papaver rhoeas in a cornfield. I'd like every field to be so rich 🤩

#arableplants #botany #wildflowers

It's arable plant season 😍 the species name speculum-veneris means Venus' mirror, maybe because the plant is so stunnigly beautiful?

Legousia speculum-veneris

#wildflowers #botany #arableplants

One of my favourite views in the world. Where my passion for all things #Farmwildlife and #arableplants #Formerlyknownasweeds began. ❤️❤️

A aerial shot of some sharp-leaved fluellen plants growing on bare earth. The typical hastate leaves of this plant are clearly visible.

I'd only ever seen Sharp-leaved fluellen, Kicksia elatine, with a few sparse leaves before. This example that we found on the margins of an arable field in Oxfordshire this week is probably more typical in its prostrate, spreading, growth form #botany #ArablePlants #wildflowerhour

Sneak peek into my arable plants bed 🫣 first up this year is Caucalis platycarpos!

Hoping to see many more species soon.

#arableplants #wildflowers #botany

Lost in a sea of Scandix pecten-veneris...

#botany #wildflowers #arableplants #messicoles

Ranscombe - Stories from a Nature Reserve - Kent Field Club| KFC

After seeing a few recent posts about #arableplants, their origin, and #localnaturerecovery, here’s a chain on arable plant conservation management. I cover this in more detail in my book on Ranscombe Farm Reserve www.kentfieldclub.org.uk/ranscombe-st.... 1/10

Happy to have seen some fields like this one in 2024. There are still some #arableplants out there!
👉 Cyanus segetum

#wildflowers #2024plants #botany

Out and about round Luddesdown yesterday. Impressed by the amount of Stinking Chamomile growing amongst the vines in the organic vineyard. Also found my first Vernal Shieldbug. #arableplants #wildflowers #bugs #kentwildlife #kentdowns

Wild Radish, Rhaphanus raphanistrum ssp raphanistrum. Such pretty flowers up close. #WildflowerHour #ArablePlants

Field Madder #arableplants #wildflowerhour

Poppies #arableplants
#wildflowerhour

Corncockle #arableplants
#wildflowerhour

Rat's-tail Fescue (Vulpia myuros) has somehow made it into my garden in Herts. Annual, it is an invasive arable plant elsewhere in the world. Favored with no-till & low-till farming systems, it is likely to become an annoying #arableplants. Surprisingly vigorous. @wildflower_hour

Rat's-tail Fescue (Vulpia myuros) has somehow made it into my garden in Herts. Annual, it is an invasive arable plant elsewhere in the world. Favored with no-till & low-till farming systems, it is likely to become an annoying #arableplants. Surprisingly vigorous. @wildflower_hour

Scarlet Pimpernel Park Road Allotments #arableplants #wildflowerhour @Greenisleworth @parkroadallotm1 @drvalsnewin

Looks a bit like a Pineapple, definitely smells like a Pineapple - its Pineappleweed, Matricaria discoidea. A member of the Asteraceae, the Daisy family, with dics florets only and no ray florets. 🍍 #WildflowerHour #ArablePlants

Scented Mayweed, Matricaria chamomilla, absolutely owning my local arable fields. The heady scent was strong and sweet in the warm air this afternoon. 🤍💛 #WildflowerHour #ArablePlants

The grey-blue pedicel arch shows there's definitely a lot of Field Pansy, Viola arvensis, in this pretty little one. The delicate violet colour makes me wonder if there has been hybridisation & introgressive back crossing with V. tricolor. #WildflowerHour #ArablePlants

In the stubble, a hare tried to be invisible; less welcome, Field Horsetail (Equisetum arvense).
Black Horehound looked black.
But treat to find Fluellen - here Round-leaved (Kickxia spuria) entwined with Sharp-leaved (K. elatine)!
#Wickhambrook #Hairyplants #Arableplants
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Foxed by some #arableplants #wildflowerID
- what's this weird grass?
- the leaves don't seem quite right for Wild Radish (Raphanus raphanistrun ssp raphanistrum)?
- is the umbellifer Fool's Parsley (Aethusa cynapium)?
& I think Black Bindweed. #Wildflowerhour #Brecks #Norfolk 5/5

Some #arableplants around Garboldisham: unknown umbellifer #wildflowerID, Field Pansy, Equal-leaved Knotgrass (Polygonum arenastrum), Small-flowered Cranesbill (Geranium pusillum).

#Breckland #Norfolk #Wildflowerhour #arableweeds

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Some #arableplants #arableweeds near Brockley #WestSuffolk: Sun spurge (Euphorbia helioscopia), Dwarf Spurge (Euphorbia exigua), Prickly Lettuce (Lactuca serriola #WildflowerID) & an unknown umbellifer #WildflowerID?
#Suffolk
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Some #arableweeds #arableplants around #Hartest #Suffolk: Clustered Dock (Rumex conglomeratus) and Curled Dock (Rumex crispus) looking rather spectacularly red, Hoary willowherb (Epilobium parviflorum) & Spear Thistle (Cirsium vulgare).
#MyWalk #Babergh @Britnatureguide 1/5

And a couple of #ArablePlants for this week's #wildflowerhour...

Meadow Vetchling, Common Poppy and Red Bartsia.

A wee Field Pansy. 💛 #wildflowerhour #arableplants

Alsike Clover, Trifolium hybridum, on an arable site in Surrey. #wildflowerhour #arableplants

OK, so I realise it hasn't got any petals, but I was a bit excited to find this as I think it is Rough Poppy, Papaver hybridum, which is quite rare. #wildflowerhour #arableplants

Black-bindweed on a field edge. It was while bending down to photograph this I found something much more exciting ..... #wildflowerhour #arableplants