Close-up of a Black Horehound flower with some empty sepal tubes and some remaining pinky-purple flowers that have patterned petals and a hairy hood, with some of its leaves below, against a blurred background

Black Horehound, Ballota nigra, with some remaining pinky-purple flowers that have patterned petals and a hairy hood, seen this week in Cambridge
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Small white and purple speckled flowers of Gypsywort growing around its square stem, with others below that are out of focus against a blurred green background

Gypsywort/Gipsywort, Lycopus europaeus, with its tiny white and purple speckled flowers growing in a whorl around its square stem, seen this week in Cambridge - and a new one for me
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With a helping hand here are Large-flowered & Common Hemp-nettle bunched together (Galeopsis speciosa & tetrahit)
Day late for #WildflowerHour #DeadNettlefamily at @rspb.bsky.social Lakenheath #Suffolk

Only a day late for #WildflowerHour #DeadNettlefamily the biggest patch of Large-flowered Hemp-nettle (Galeopsis speciosa) you ever did see. Behind the scenes at @rspb.bsky.social Lakenheath #Suffolk during survey work on a restricted area of the reserve.

Clockwise from top-left: Common Restharrow, White Campion, Marsh Woundwort, Wild Pansy, Common Storksbill, Harebells, Bifid Hemp-nettle, Field Pansy, White Dead-nettle.

Clockwise from Top-left: Marsh Marigold, Meadow Vetchling, Sticky Groundsel, Lady’s Bedstraw, Common Catsear, Bird’s-foot Trefoil, Lesser Spearwort, Common Ragwort, Marsh Thistle.

Some #Speyside finds for #Wildflowerhour
Including a few for the #DeadNettleFamily challenge.
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Back in the Dordogne for a bit (so this isn’t UK) but lovely to find the very impressive Broad-leaved Hemp-nettle (Galeopsis ladanum) growing in a ditch behind our house #Deadnettlefamily #wildflowerhour

So lovely to see all your #DeadNettleFamily finds. Huge thanks to everyone that took part! Keep a lookout for the next challenge & see you all again for #WildflowerHour next Sunday. Happy flower spotting!

A rare plant here, Wild Basil, on a rural road verge in North Cornwall today.

Clinopodium vulgare

#Deadnettlefamily for #wildflowerhour

Common Calamint, with many plants on a village pavement and walls. North Cornwall today.

Clinopodium ascendens

#Deadnettlefamily for #wildflowerhour

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Absolutely fabulous! #DeadNettlefamily

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Balm, Melissa officinalis, a persistent garden 'weed' in #Cambridge #WildflowerHour #DeadNettlefamily

Wood Sage (Teucrium scorodonia) in a corner of Warren Farm

Almost #DeadNettlefamily, and no longer in flower.

Blue-violet Skullcap: two-lipped softly hairy flowers with hooded upper lip and shallowly four-lobed lower lip and opposite lanceolate leaves.

A Skullcap Scutellaria galericulata captured by Loch Lomond along the West Highland Way route #wildflowerhour #DeadnettleFamily

A photo of lots of green mint leaves and two clusters of the very pale lilac colour flowers of Water Mint (ignore the variegated Glyceria leaves which have appeared with no explanation in my Water Mint Bucket!)

Close up of a rather wobbly flower head of Marsh Woundwort, a plant with tall stems, variable thin pointed leaves with a little serration, and a pinkish (lilac?) colour flower with white patterns on it. In one of the spent flower heads you can see the seed forming.

Two plants of ponds/damp ground in the Lamiaceae or #DeadNettlefamily for #WildflowerHour this week - Water Mint and Marsh Woundwort. Both of these spread by creeping stems as well as by seed.

I think this was wild basil #DeadNettleFamily #WildflowerHour

Wild Marjoram (Origanum vulgare) at Warren Farm

Ballota nigra in Long Wood

Hedge Woundwort (Stachys sylvatica) seeds in Long Wood.

Some #DeadNettlefamily from Warren Farm and Long Wood (west London) yesterday.
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For the #deadnettlefamily challenge I can't resist "recycling" a favourite flower from my visit to Braunton Burrows 3 weeks ago - a lovely Skullcap.
And from this week - a simple, White Dead-nettle (love those furry hoods!) and Betony - both purple and white flowers found. #wildflowerhour

Water Mint flower (with lilac coloured flowers clustered with some still to open) surrounded by grasses and reeds in the damp margins of a pond.

Water Mint - Mentha aquatica - for #DeadNettlefamily #wildflowerhour

Some #DeadNettleFamily plants for #WildflowerHour.
Lesser Calamint and Betony from earlier this week, and Balm, Marsh Woundwort, Yellow Archangel, Ground Ivy, Black Horehound, White Dead-nettle, Bugle & Red Dead-nettle from earlier this year 🙂
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Chalk grasslands never disappoint when it comes to finding members of the #DeadNettleFamily.
Yesterday’s walk along the White Cliffs near Dover felt like flipping through a Lamiaceae wildflower guide, with one beauty after another popping up along the coastal path
#WildflowerHour

White beak-sedge close up of white flowers

Picture to show lots of White beak-sedge

Closeup of Sundew leaves with sticky drops waiting to catch insects

Picture of entrance to Garry Bog path with signs to show things of interest to look for and with a row of purple Fireweed flowering on the right

On #InternationalBogDay best place #GarryBog Masses of Bladderwort, White beak-sedge, Sundew. Here for Marsh Woundwort in #DeadNettleFamily

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Close-up side view of pale pink and white flowers against a blurred green background.

Common calamint in Ely. #DeadNettleFamily #WildflowerHour

Water Mint, Mentha aquatica, in a drainage ditch on the golf course on Mitcham Common. I love the smell of a big patch of Water Mint. #WildflowerHour #DeadnettleFamily #DitchLife

Marsh woundwort & hedge woundwort #Deadnettlefamily #WildflowerHour

Here are spotted, red, and a splendidly hairy white dead nettle for the #wildflowerhour #DeadNettleFamily challenge @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Managed to spot 1 for the #DeadNettleFamily challenge - Wild Basil. #WildflowerHour 😀

Two lipped purple flowers with spots on to guide pollinators

Leaves arrow shaped and opposite/alternate

Square stem and leaves with no stalk visible

Looking for #DeadNettleFamily took me to the Garry #Bog for Marsh Woundwort
#Lamiaceae square stem, opp+alt leaves, flowers =whorl, no sting

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