Managed #theWinterTen on today's litter pick, with a dozen species in flower. Highlights were Sweet Violets (Viola odorata), my 1st Primrose (Primula vulgaris) of the year, ever-reliable Yarrow (Achillea millefolium) and what I suspect is Common Whitlow-grass (Erophila verna agg). #WildflowerHour
Dandelion wiltling with frost, growing from rubble at foot of sloping wall.
Because of doing #NewYearPlantHunt last couple of days, I've definitely now met #TheWinterTen challenge for #WildFlowerHour tomorrow. So much so I can afford to share one early!
Look at this dandelion frozen in bud before it could bloom!
A grid showing close-ups of 10 different plants in flower. Top row left to right: a bright yellow dandelion in flower on the village playing field, a white daisy with yellow centre, a red valerian with wet glossy leaves, a pink red deadnettle. Middle row: hazel catkins and primroses open already looking spring like Bottom row: clusters of small flowers of white and red yarrow, a bright green petty spurge, and a white deadnettle.
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Surprised myself by managing to find ten slightly bedraggled plants in flower on a rainy walk around our village today. Dandelion, daisy, red valerian, red deadnettle, hazel, primrose, yarrow (red and white forms) petty spurge, and white deadnettle.
One Daisy flower in the centre of the photo
One Scentless Mayweed flower centrally in the photo
A purple Cranesbill flower (to right) not fully open and one leaf to left
Common Hogweed flowering umbel (head) to right, similar head but flowers over, fluting, to left
Roe Valley for #thewinterten, #WildFlowerHour
FourTEEN found! Some: Feverfew, Knapweed, Hog & Mayweed, Red Clover, Campion, Daisy, Bramble, Dock, Poa grass, Forget-me-not.
Great place for New Year Plant Hunt #NYPH #BSBI
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Tiny dock flowers held between fingers to stop them blowing in the breeze
One Bramble flower with a few petals missing but the cream anthers are healthy, brown ones maybe had a frost. Some very big priceless on some stems
Tiny grass flowering near the car park, still trying to flower in November
Campion flower, called Red but looks pink. Looks like a female flower (the male and female are on different plants) as stigmata visible in the centre of the petals. 5 toothed petals.
Roe Valley for #thewinterten, #WildFlowerHour
FourTEEN found! Some: Feverfew, Knapweed, Hog & Mayweed, Red Clover, Campion, Daisy, Bramble, Dock, Poa grass, Forget-me-not.
Great place for New Year Plant Hunt #NYPH #BSBI
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Forget-me-not flowers, growing in water, just a small cluster right in the middle of a dark image
White petal, yellow centre Feverfew flowers - about 12 heads across the middle of the image
One purple Knapweed head, facing to the right with some 5 tongue like bracts on the flower stem
Pink cover (Red) one flowering head facing right, with three clover leaflets to left
Roe Valley for #thewinterten, #WildFlowerHour
FourTEEN found! Some: Feverfew, Knapweed, Hog & Mayweed, Red Clover, Campion, Daisy, Bramble, Dock, Poa grass, Forget-me-not.
Great place for New Year Plant Hunt #NYPH #BSBI
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Lacey tiny white flowers in five clusters in close up take up the central circle of the photo with a few green leaves behind almost out of focus.
Roe Valley, Limavady for #thewinterten for #WildFlowerHour
FOUR found! Herb Robert, Common Hogweed, Campion, Daisy.
Good place for a New Year Plant Hunt #NYPH #BSBI
Also on #Rathlin: Primrose & Smooth Sow Thistle.
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Many daisy leaves by the path in this place and quite a few flowers but only one flower looked unharmed by feet or weather. One flower head with white petals and yellow centre which has Fibonacci spiral
Roe Valley, Limavady for #thewinterten for #WildFlowerHour
FOUR found! Herb Robert, Common Hogweed, Campion, Daisy.
Good place for a New Year Plant Hunt #NYPH #BSBI
Also on #Rathlin: Primrose & Smooth Sow Thistle.
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Campion close up of a flowering spike with about 8 - 10 pink flowers looking surprisingly flourishing for winter
Roe Valley, Limavady for #thewinterten for #WildFlowerHour
FOUR found! Herb Robert, Common Hogweed, Campion, Daisy.
Good place for a New Year Plant Hunt #NYPH #BSBI
Also on #Rathlin: Primrose & Smooth Sow Thistle.
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Close up of Herb Robert - a small purse flower with hairy calyx and hairy stems - some hairs are long, some short.
Roe Valley for #thewinterten for #WildFlowerHour
FOUR found! Herb Robert, Common Hogweed, Campion, Daisy. Also on #Rathlin: Primrose & Smooth Sow Thistle.
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From the Limestone Way for #wildflowerhour. Red Campion. Nipplewort, Yarrow, Herb-Robert, Wild Angelica, Sowthistle, Meadow? Buttercup, Sandwort?, Dandelion, Vetch #TheWinterTen
View looking down the river to the sea at Golden hour - one boat left lower middle and sun shining on bank. Fluffy clouds in blue sky
Black cat at sea (close up) with yellow eyes, in her buoyancy aid and harness
Cat's Ear flowers and leaves hard to see but only one flower for each stem, more like a Nipplewort flower but without the branching.
A few small flowers of Nipplewort - photo take at night so colours a bit unusual. Autumn leaves brown on the ground behind the flowers
The #thewinterten for #WildFlowerHour impossible today as sailed instead. 2 by car headlamp: Nipplewort & Cat's Ear which seems pretty apt as we had Tammy sailor #cat with us! Will return to Cat's-ear in daylight to check.
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A yellow buttercup, and three different white flowers: deadnettle, common mouse-ear chickweed, and shepherd’s purse, all in a pasture field in south Oxfordshire.
Red campion, white yarrow, dandelion, viper’s bugloss, and red valerian. All in south Oxfordshire.
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All from South Oxfordshire earlier in the week.
Just some well-known, common wildflowers for this week's #wildflowerhour #thewinterten
as there aren't many more to be found at the moment!
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Last lot are from St Georges churchyard, #Beckenham
A very confused primrose, green alkanet and yellow corydalis.
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Next three are fleabane, michaelmas daisy and a lonely daisy.All in #Beckenham.
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First four: black horehound, hogweed, bindweed and white dead nettle, in Waddon, #Croydon.
Small white flowers near the river bank, a fern and river water framing the flowering head
Flowering umber reaching high towards sun rays in centre of photo at the top, with reflections of trees in the river behind the plant
Castle gardens #Antrim for #thewinterten for #WildFlowerHour TWELVE!! Groundsel, Meadow & Creeping Buttercup, St Johns Wort, Sow Thistle, Ragwort, Balsam, Ivy Leaved Toadflax, Daisy, Hogweed, Dandelion & White Dead Nettle
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Lush looking daisies with a fungus fruiting nearby and autumn leaves adding to beauty
Yellow flowers looking like dates only yellow in a wild patch of grass
One Dandelion flower near and autumn leaf, beautiful contrasting colours
Castle gardens #Antrim for #thewinterten for #WildFlowerHour TWELVE!! Groundsel, Meadow & Creeping Buttercup, St Johns Wort, Sow Thistle, Ragwort, Balsam, Ivy Leaved Toadflax, Daisy, Hogweed, Dandelion & White Dead Nettle
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One flower of Toadflax, small and purple
One flower of Himalayan Balsam - looks like an orchid flower
Castle gardens #Antrim for #thewinterten for #WildFlowerHour TWELVE!! Groundsel, Meadow & Creeping Buttercup, St Johns Wort, Sow Thistle, Ragwort, Balsam, Ivy Leaved Toadflax, Daisy, Hogweed, Dandelion & White Dead Nettle
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One creeping buttercup flower and green leaves on the lawn
Tall Buttercup near the river - several small flowers
Flowers almost at stage of fruiting and developing "parachutes) but still some yellow showing
One Sow Thistle flower closing for the night to develop seeds
Castle gardens #Antrim for #thewinterten for #WildFlowerHour TWELVE!! Groundsel, Meadow & Creeping Buttercup, St Johns Wort, Sow Thistle, Ragwort, Balsam, Ivy Leaved Toadflax, Daisy, Hogweed, Dandelion & White Dead Nettle
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Yellow flower hanging over the river with large smooth leaves.
White flowers hidden under top leaves near sundown, water is yellowish due to Golden Hour
Castle gardens #Antrim for #thewinterten for #WildFlowerHour TWELVE!! Groundsel, Meadow & Creeping Buttercup, St Johns Wort, Sow Thistle, Ragwort, Balsam, Ivy Leaved Toadflax, Daisy, Hogweed, Dandelion & White Dead Nettle
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#wildflowerhour #thewinterten a squashed dandelion, ivy, sowthistle and petty spurge - I reckon that’s 12 this week!
#wildflowerhour #thewinterten second four: bristly oxtongue laid low by wind and rain but still flowering, yarrow, michaelmas daisy and nipplewort
Clockwise from top left: Common poppy; common cat’s ear; field scabious; knapweed; hogweed.
Clockwise from top left: Red campion; red clover; white campion; toadflax; dead-nettle.
Sunny stroll in South Oxfordshire today. Names in ALT text.
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Seedheads of a very large Eryngium
To remember Halloween: Seed heads of (probably) Miss Wilmott's Ghost (Eryngium giganteum) naturalised near Ramore Head, Portrush
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Small head of Hogweed found near the seashore
One flower of Ivy leaved toadflax
Bleak on Ramore Head, Portrush to seek #thewinterten for #WildFlowerHour This weeks 10: Ivy Leaved Toadflax, Thrift, Sea Campion, Scentless Mayweed, Gorse, Daisy, Hogweed, Ivy, Vetch, Dandelion
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Solitary Daisy
Two flowering heads of a Daisy like flower known as Mayweed
Bleak on Ramore Head, Portrush to seek #thewinterten for #WildFlowerHour This weeks 10: Ivy Leaved Toadflax, Thrift, Sea Campion, Scentless Mayweed, Gorse, Daisy, Hogweed, Ivy, Vetch, Dandelion
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Gorse by torch light - so very odd yellow
One flowering head of dandelion
Bleak on Ramore Head, Portrush to seek #thewinterten for #WildFlowerHour Some of 10: Ivy Leaved Toadflax, Thrift, Sea Campion, Scentless Mayweed, Gorse, Daisy, Hogweed, Ivy, Vetch, Dandelion
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