Huge thanks to @bigmeadowsearch.bsky.social for all their excellent #WildFlowerID posts in recent months!
Well worth following them and scrolling back through their posts if you're looking to sharpen your ID skills this spring.
Hope they enjoy a well-earned break after all that hard work!
Find out how Nicola @wildplantwanderer.bsky.social is progressing on her botanical journey with #Identiplant, our online botany course.
She's been getting to grips with leaf shapes, #WildFlowerID keys & she just had her 1st "Eureka, suddenly it all fell into place" moment: bsbi.org/blog/2026/03...
Yes I agree that collages are a great way to showcase #WildflowerHour finds! And it's fine to ask for #WildflowerID help, it's just easier for others to zoom in to see the detail needed for an ID with individual pics. A few pics of the plant in question from different angles are always helpful too.
your 'I think guelder-rose' is a Juneberry (Amelanchier lamarckii) or possibly one of the other Amelanchier species. It makes a very pretty small tree for a garden
Let's just check with the #WildflowerID gang
Yes, it looks like Barren Strawberry from what I can see. For an ID of your centre violet do you have any pics showing spur and sepals, as these are important characters for Viola ID. It is always helpful to post photos for ID individually rather than in a collage, and use the hashtag #WildflowerID.
Yes, looks good for Ground-ivy. Reminder to use #WildFlowerID any time you'd like a 2nd opinion.
Looks like it to me! Let's check with @fungiflowers.bsky.social. Remember to use #WildflowerID to summon ID assistance.
Do you know what they are or would you like some #WildFlowerID help?
Plant 2 looks like Barren Strawb to me, would @naturelark.bsky.social agree?
She has a handy #WildFlowerHour cribsheet to help people ID strawbs & if we ask her nicely, she might share it with you!
Reminder to use #WildFlowerID any time you'd like some ID help.
Do you know what they are or would you like some #WildFlowerID help?
It's Sunday, it's 8pm so it must be #WildFlowerHour.
Please share pix of any wild or naturalised plants you saw in bloom last week across Britain & Ireland, including any #treeflowers for tonight's challenge.
Mystery plant? Use #WildFlowerID to summon help from @wildflowerhour.bsky.social botanists.
flowering head -- roundish, many ellow satmens, pointed bracts visisble as bottom.
whole plant: large tussock, last year's grass leaves yellowing, approx 15 flowers
Can anyone help me out with this grass -- or not a grass? High altitude (near top of Eagle Crag, #Cumbria), acid, waterlogged soil. This was the largest tussock (in an area without sheep), individual flowers were also seen emerging through grazed areas. #WildflowerID #botany #WildflowerHour
Basal rosette id ???
Brassica & Hawkweed are as far as I dare
Can anyone get any further?
#WildflowerID
#Wildflowerhour
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Lovely! Do you know what they all are Phil, or do you need some #WildflowerID help?
Lovely! Do you know what they all are or do you need some #WildflowerID help?
What looks like a Herb Robert flower with notched petals
What looks like a Herb Robert flower with notched petals
And I also found what (seemed to be) a few Herb Robert plants in flower with noticeably notched (rather than blunt) petals #WildflowerHour Does anyone know more about Herb Robert plants like this? #WildflowerID
Can I have a #wildflowerID confirmation for this one. Rue Leaved Saxifrage? on a Kilkenny wall. . As part of a wildflower course building a 100 sp herbarium. #wildflowerhour
It's Sunday, it's 8pm so it must be #WildFlowerHour!
Please share pix of any wild or naturalised plants you saw in bloom last week across Britain & Ireland inc any #storyplants with fascinating facts.
Mystery plant? Use #WildFlowerID to summon help from friendly @wildflowerhour.bsky.social botanists
Name That Plant is an amazing #WildFlowerID resource created by @milneorchid.bsky.social!
The website namethatplant.org is built on a photo library of >2,700 plant taxa.
We were delighted when Richard very kindly agreed to let us use those fabulous images on the new BSBI website: bsbi.org/plants!
Four by four grid of photos of sixteen different flowers.
Green Alkanet, Chickweed, Blackthorn, Forsythia,
???, Daisy, Laurel, Speedwell,
Dandelion, Flowering Currant, Red Dead Nettle, ???,
???, Mahonia, Groundsel, Anemone.
Don't know the names of 3 small white flowers. Would like #WildflowerID
#WildflowerHour
An unknown Violet flower
An unknown Violet flower
Although I did get confused with this violet as the sepals don't look as pointed as the Early Dog Violet that I had found, but the flower stem doesn't look hairy #WildflowerID Out of curiousity, does anyone know what this violet might be?
Small white flowers growing in clinkers.
Mass of white violets, growing actually on the railway tracks at Digby and Sowton station. Would be grateful if #WildflowerID can offer an opinion on species.
It's Sunday, it's 8pm so it must be #WildFlowerHour!
Please share pix of any wild or naturalised plants you spotted in bloom last week across Britain & Ireland, including any #WhiteFlowers.
Mystery plant?
Use #WildFlowerID to summon help from friendly @wildflowerhour.bsky.social botanists!
9 flowers: a snowdrop naturalised in a wood, daisy,? Bittercress, perfoliate claytonia, white dead nettle, which? comfrey, common chickweed, white comfrey, ? (growing on thin soil and moss on concrete)
#WhiteFlowers for #wildflowerhour , Norfolk:
a snowdrop naturalised in a wood, daisy,? Bittercress, perfoliate claytonia, white dead nettle, which? comfrey, common chickweed, white comfrey, ? (growing on thin soil and moss on concrete). #wildflowerID can you help on ?s
What have we here? A Bee Orchid appearing under the roses in the garden!!
#Wildflowers #WildflowerHour #WildflowerID
Some kind of violet flower
Some kind of violet flower
I found some kind of violet this week #WildflowerHour Does anyone know what type it might be? #WildflowerID
Starry white 4-petalled flowers, clustered at the top of a slender stalk. In grass
Group of white flowered plants in rough grass, in the centre is a mossy rock
#WildflowerID please 🙏 #WildflowerHour
Cuckoo flower/Cardamine-like, but white flowers? Stem 14cm tall.
May be a garden/rockery plant?
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It's Súnday, it's 8pm so it must be #WildFlowerHour!
Please share pix of any wild or naturalised plants you spotted in bloom last week across Britain & Ireland including any #SignsofSpring.
Mystery plant?
Use #WildFlowerID to summon help from friendly @wildflowerhour.bsky.social botanists!
Mistaken identity on Sunday! Close up of small-leaved plant with fresh green foliage. Stems of small white flowers & long straight seedheads - Bittercress? Not heart-shaped seeds of Shepherd’s Purse
Small green plant with stems of white flowers & straight seedheads - Bittercress?
Aha - not Shepherd’s Purse!
In better light & by the shape of its seeds - Bittercress? 🌱👀
#WildflowerID
