A close up photograph of a poet’s narcissus flower. It is a bright, dainty flower on a slender stem. It has six very white, large petals, slightly separated. The centre is a bright yellow, moving to orange, then outlined in a deep orange-red. The colours of the flowers contrast vividly against the blurred green of the background. One of the earliest daffodils to be cultivated, it is native to southern and Central Europe, and naturalised here in the UK. This may be the narcissus mentioned in ancient texts and associated with Narcissus. I spotted this one as I was walking through a woodland, standing out from the sea of purples and yellows of the common bluebells and lesser celandine. Likely a naturalised specimen rather than planted.

Poet’s narcissus (Narcissus poeticus)

Found in a woodlands yesterday, London

#StunDay #ColorADay #OrangeSun #WildFlowerHour

Frothy bright green fronds of a young pineapple weed growing from the corner of a dusty window ledge painted black and green

Pals of the #wildflowerhour I'm away for a festival in Glasgee and can't do woodland plants challenge this week, but please enjoy this cheeky pineapple weed I saw growing from a crack in the ledge of blocked window 🙃 so cheeky.

12/4/26 Lancashire - After a jolly good lie-in I’m now live from the field where my home #Orchid party for 2026 kicks off in North Lancashire. Anacamptis morio, the Green-Winged Orchid #wildflowerhour

Vinca Heatwave .˚₊ ᯽
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grassy hedgerow with bluebells, tall grasses and white flowers (white campion maybe?)

clump of bluebells and red nettle in grass in a hedgerow

yellow cowslips growing in grass along the side of a country walk.

Such a beautiful time of year to enjoy wild flowers in hedgerows. Here's a selection we saw on a walk in Herts last week.

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A purple orchid spike with a thick pale stem and fleshy green leaves at the base. The background is a diffuse green.

A close up showing part of the purple flower spike. With some imagination the flowers look a little like a person with purple legs, a white with purple dots tummy, and a purple hood with pale colours inside. There's an out of focus second flower spike to the left, though still in tight bud. The background is a diffuse green.

A cluster of small almost white flowers with pink lines running through the petals. There is a cluster of small unopened pink buds at the top. There are other similar but out of focus flowers in the background.

A few Green-winged Orchid (Anacamptis morio) and Cuckoo flower (Cardamine pratensis) slowly emerging at @bbowt.bsky.social's Bernwood Meadows, though so far most are only a couple of centimetres high. Hopefully there'll be many more in a week or so!
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3/ More suggested hashtags to join on a Sunday

#SundaySheep

#SparrowSunday
#Swanday
#SeabirdSunday

#SundaySunflowers
#SundayCactus

#WildflowerHour (EVERY Sunday 8-9pm)

#SundaySeaweed

#SundayYellow

#SevenOnSunday 

#SkySunday

3 of 8 #SundayHashtags

#StainedGlassSunday
#StandingStoneSunday
#SundayBells
#SundayBookChoices
#SundaySeashore
#SundaySermons
#SundaySheep
#SundayStonework
#SundayStreetMusic
#SundaySunflowers
#SundayYellow
#SundialSunday
#SwampSunday
#WildflowerHour 8-9 pm

Scarcely room to fit another celandine on this verge. & here's an unusual albino which occasionallyappears. #WildflowerHour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

It's always a treat when the Pasque flowers come into bloom #WildflowerHour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Green mayapple and violet forest phlox and a yellow wildflower next to a log in a woods

Sessile trillium blooming maroon next to a tree root which also grows green painted fern and other foliage

#Ohio #WildflowerHour

Tall spikes of impressive magenta flowers and large, glossy, sometimes spotted leaves in a woodland setting.

A significant increase in Early Purple Orchid spikes in our local wood this year. 💜
#UKwildlife
#Sussexwildlife
#wildflowerhour
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Chalkland ecology. I went to look for Hairy violet, Viola hirta, at Coney Banks, Chatham. Abundant in area of open grassland that is mown once each autumn; patches of Dog Violet here too. Early Dog Violet by more shaded paths. I did not find Sweet Violet. Early for #WildflowerHour #Violaceae #Kent

Caucasian Comfrey Symphytum caucasicum, with tubular blue flowers and purplish-shaded calyces with shallow triangular teeth.

Caucasian Comfrey Symphytum caucasicum, with tubular blue flowers and purplish-shaded calyces with shallow triangular teeth.

Black and yellow caterpillar of Scarlet Tiger moth

Found a magnificent stand of Caucasian Comfrey (new to VC32) yesterday while surveying a churchyard in Etton, its clear blue flowers attracting a whole range of pollinators. The caterpillar of a Scarlet Tiger moth was also enjoying the bristly leaves!

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A group of purple and pink bell-shaped flowers on long thin stems and with thin curving leaves. There is a small clump of Cuckoo flower with small pinky white flowers on the left. the background is a diffuse green, with a light brown (reed) strip at the top.

Two purple and pink bell-shaped flowers on a single thin stalk with thin green curved leaves. The background is a diffuse green with a strip of light brown (reed) at the top.

Great display of Snake's-head Fritillary (Fritillaria meleagris) at Iffley Meadows in Oxford at the moment. Listed as Vulnerable on the Vascular Plant Red Data List for GB, this is one of only around 30 sites in the UK where they grow wild.
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Rare Spring Sedge Carex ericetorum starting to show well on Lindrick Common Golf Course, S Yorks @bsbibotany.bsky.social
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Patch of wild garlic with white flowers and fairly large leaves.

Brown barefoot walking boots with paler soles. Amy has buff-ish coloured trousers and one grey strap from the rucksack. The ground has many stones (not rocks or boulders I think) but larger than little gravel which makes the ground very uneven.

Main reason I like the term 'birder' (rather than 'birdwatcher') is that I use many senses - often hearing before seeing etc - and the scents! Today's early walk smelt of garlic 😋 (Wild Garlic) #UKbirding #WildflowerHour

Barefoot boots adding to the experience too! Surprisingly comfy 🙂

Mezereon, Daphne mezereum and growing among it the rare Rose-moss, Rhodobryum roseum. Millers Dale NR Derbys. March
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Virginia bluebells #wildflowerhour #wildflowers

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Blackthorn blossom at Milford Common #Witley #Surrey #NationalTrust #blackthorn #wildflowerhour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

Northern Shores: Thrift Thrift is a member of the Plumbaginaceae (aka Leadwort) tribe, a small and tough family that specialises in harsh habitats, having evolved ‘chalk glands’ that excrete salts, allowing it to flourish…

My latest article looks at Armeria maritima, otherwise known as Thrift (it also features some of my awful poetry, so you can’t say I didn’t warn you!)
#Seaside #Ecology #Botany #Nature #Wildflowerhour
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Forgot to add this Snake's Head Fritillary (Fritillaria meleagris) to last weeks #wildflowerhour. You can just see the cowslip sneaking in to the bottom right !

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Yellow Bee-orchid, Ophrys lutea, in Málaga province, 26 March 2026.
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Image of MRes Student Annabelle Knutson.

This parasitic plant, Lathraea clandestina, is being studied by MRes student Annabelle Knutson, as part of our work on genome duplication in #WGDip.

Lathraea experienced a genome duplication🧬 & this may have facilitated its parasitic adaptations!

#wildflower #parasiticplant #WildflowerHour 🧪

It's the #WoodlandPlants challenge this week for @wildflowerhour.bsky.social - share your woodland wildflowers this week with the #WildflowerHour community this Sunday evening, 8-9pm.

We wood!

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!