a tiny hoverfly with a shiny black carapace on the purple flower of a dead nettle plant

A tiny hoverfly enjoying some spring sunshine and the company of this flowering purple dead-nettle 🌱

#InsectThursday #Bloomscrolling #BugSky #UKWildflowers #UKWildlife

The male flower of a butterbur, petasites hybridus, tiny pink and white inflorescences on the end of a pink flower spike

Butterbur, so called because its large leaves were once upon a time used for wrapping butter 🌱

#MacroMonday #Bloomscrolling #PinkMon #ColorADay #EastCoastKin #UKWildflowers

Red Campion

Cherry Blossom

Cuckoo Flower/Milkmaids

Pendulous Sedge

You know it's Spring when the Red Campion comes out. A rare dog-free amble along the #yeovilcountrypark Riverside Walk this morning. @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social #ukwildflowers #uknature

Acer

Common Spotted Eupeodes on Balkan Anenome

White Snakes-Head Fritillaries

Dark-Edged Beefly

Kingston Lacy earlier, where the sun defied the Met Office and came out anyway. My first Dark-Edged Beefly of the season, and a tiny Common Spotted Eupeodes on the Balkan Anenomes. @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social @uk-soldierflies.bsky.social @britishbugs.bsky.social #uknature #ukwildflowers #ukwildlife

Beautiful tiny delicate purple wild flowers growing close to my home.

Clump of Dog-violets.

Dog-violets. 🌱🌷🌻🪻

#Shropshire #UKnature #UKwildflowers #dogviolets #purple #gardenfeed

The Wood Anenomes are out at Ninesprings #yeovilcountrypark #wildflowers #ukwildflowers #uknature

First dandelions of the year on Giant Hill, Cerne Abbas - always a heart-warming sight @dandelionappre1.bsky.social @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social @nationaltrust.org.uk #ukwildflowers #natureuk

Small purple flowers growing among a pile of fallen branches in bright but weak winter sunshine

Lungwort, flowering in a sheltered spot in Ramsbottom yesterday 🌱

#WildflowerHour #Bloomscrolling #UKWildflowers

Preserving Pasqueflowers: botanising in Cambridgeshire at the end of the eighteenth century - Collections Connections Communities Preserving Pasqueflowers: botanising in Cambridgeshire at the end of the eighteenth century Jill Whitelock, CCC CO-Chair, Associate Director, Head of Special Collections, Cambridge University Library ...

Today I'm enjoying @jillwhitelock.bsky.social 's fabulous blog post about the pasqueflower as recorded in Revett Sheppard's personal notes at the turn of the 19th century. Thank you, Dr Whitelock - this is a wonderful piece. #wildflowers #ukwildflowers #archivist www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/blog/preserv...

Small pink geranium type flower, herb Robert , geranium robertinium

Herb Robert

#WildflowerHour #Bloomscrolling #FlowerReport #UKWildflowers

Creeping thistle flower

Creeping thistle 🌱📷

#MacroMonday #EastCoastKin #Bloomscrolling #UKWildflowers

A cluster of orange flowers of the dandelion tribe

Orange hawkweed, Pilosella aurantiaca, also known as 'Fox and Cubs' 🌱📷

#Bloomscrolling #ColourADay #OrangeSun #EastCoastKin #WildflowerHour #UKWildflowers

Golden Carline Thistles by the sea … just love them 🤩

Fluffy but wickedly prickly

Scottish Highlands

#Wildflowers #Thistles #Botany
@wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social #UkWildflowers

A lilac purple geranium type flower

Dovefoot cranesbill 🌱📷

#WildflowerHour #Bloomscrolling #FlowerReporr #UKWildflowers

Dainty little Fleabane flowers with their white petals and yellow centres growing out of a crack at the foot of a red brick garden wall near other green weeds.

As usual I almost forgot about this. Just in time here’s a Fleabane growing in a crack by our rubbish bins.

#WildflowerHour #Bloomscrolling #UKWildflowers

Queen Anne's lace seedhead #MacroMonday

Wild carrot 🌱📷

#WildflowerHour #Seedheads #Bloomscrolling #UKWildflowers

Teasel seedhead #MacroMonday

Teasel 🌱

#Wildflowerhour #Seedheads #UKWildflowers #Bloomscrolling

A seedpod of rosebay willowherb as it peels open to release its feathery seeds #MacroPhotography #MacroMonday

Rosebay Willowherb 🌱

#WildflowerHour #Seedheads #UKWildflowers #Bloomscrolling

Pondside plants

Creeping thistle #seedheads with some hedge bindweed 🌱📷

#WildflowerHour #Bloomscrolling #UKWildflowers

Marsh woundwort, Greater Manchester. 🌱📷

#WildflowerHour #bloomscrolling #UKWildflowers

Roun-leaved Fluellen.

Dwarf Spurge.

Good to find an un-sprayed field on Chalk,quite often with a few good Arable plants to find ,my afternoons highlights being Round Leaved Fluellen and Dwarf Spurge with many commoner species also present. A Red Kite kept me company , disturbed a Covey of 15+ Red-Legged Partridge. #ukwildflowers

White Hogweed flowers growing in a meadow of grass.

#WildflowerHour #Bloomscrolling #UKWildflowers
Hogweed.

A common dandelion, living it large in Greater Manchester this afternoon 🌱📷

#WildflowerHour #DaisyFamily #Bloomscrolling #UKWildflowers

Daisies

Common Daisy 🌱📷

#WildflowerHour #DaisyFamily #Bloomscrolling #UKWildflowers

Orange hawkweed

Orange hawkweed, Fox & Cubs, for tonights #WildflowerHour #DaisyFamily challenge 🌱📷

#Bloomscrolling #UKWildflowers

A bee mimic fly on purple thistle

A drone-fly on creeping thistle, for #WildflowerHour #PollinatorPals 🌱

#Bloomscrolling #Pollinators #BugSky #UKWildflowers

Wild chicory in the fields. Such a beautiful intense colour.
#ukwildflowers
#nature
#derbyshirecountryside

I’ve allowed a really big ragwort to grow on a steep bank at the back of my house. (Nowhere near livestock) it’s actually beautiful and alive with bees and butterflies #gardening #ukwildflowers #butterflies #bees

A close up of a white bindweed flower, with wet leaves behind, after rain

Field Bindweed after the rain. Taken on a gloomy morning at the weekend, on my phone.

#bindweed #wetplants #whiteflowers #ukwildflowers

Hedge woundwort Greater Manchester, UK

Hedge woundwort 🌱📷

#WildflowerHour #UKWildflowers #Bloomscrolling