Thale Cress on the Lion Arch Bridge over the Avonmore, just upstream of the Meeting of the Waters. This unassuming plant is incredibly important scientifically, and was the first plant to have its genome sequenced. More here: www.wildflowersofireland.net/plant_detail... #wildfowerhour #StoryPlants
Our rescue snowdrops from the M25J10 improvement scheme are doing OK, but I feel the more specialist ones we have acquired over time struggle to ever open in the wet weather has the often large petals get drenched and are then too heavy to lift up and just rot ☹️ #WildfowerHour
Jointed Rush, Juncus articulatus. New for our driveway. Given the amount of time I spend in wetland habitats the most likely vector for this surely has to be me. Got me wondering about how much botanists, inadvertently, influence plant distributions.
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#biosecurity
@wildflowerhour.bsky.social Field full of Dock and a Field full of Thistle #seedheads #wildfowerhour
A photo of blackberries ranging from green to pink to black, still on the bush.
#wildfowerhour some blackberries I photographed yesterday in North Devon.
Insect on a mallow flower
#wildfowerhour #pollinatorchallenge Critter on a mallow flower, looks like a bee to me but I’m no expert on insects!
Very pleased to find ~a dozen Marsh Helleborines locally in Laois yesterday. #wildfowerhour #helleborineChallenge
Distant photgraph of Common Barberry. A straggly, thorny shrub with pale green matt leaves and small clusters of yellow flowers.
Close hpnof Barberry flowers. Small clusters of bright yellow flowers.
Sald Burnet flowers, white edged green petals with bizzare styles emerging, looking like cerise chimney brushes.
Last few from North Wales limestone for #wildfowerhour Common Barberry (first time that I've found this plant for myself), and Salad Burnet.
Where others hurry past, the orchid lingers, teaching beauty in patience and stillness. #wildfowerhour #nature #biodiversityprotection #SaveTheHellfire www.change.org/p/save-the-h...
Hawthorns are so pretty!
Both male and female reproductive parts are contained within each flower. Flowers are highly scented, white or occasionally pink with five petals, and grow in flat-topped clusters.
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A slightly rain bashed chicory flower.
Chicory, bit battered but still beautifully blue. On the edge of the moors in the western pennines. #wildfowerhour #stillflowering 🌱📷
I wasn't going to let a bit of rain stop me from carrying out mission Herb Paris, Paris quadrifolia, in Croydon woodland yesterday. #WildfowerHour
Handsome Marsh Thistles guarding the edge of Market Weston Fen, peacock butterflies just loving that fresh, Hemp Agrimony. What a relief at last to find a place near us where it still squidges underfoot - even the pingos have a bit of standing water. #MarketWeston #WildFowerHour
Goldilocks Buttercups at Chapel Bank, Croydon for #wildfowerhour. Hurrah! I can add that to Bulbous, Creeping & Meadow. A couple more to go!
