Winter heliotrope, gorse, periwinkle, hazel, white dead nettle, snowdrops, petty spurge, sweet violet, daisy, primrose
For #wildflowerhour #winterTen - Winter heliotrope, gorse, periwinkle, hazel, white dead nettle, snowdrops, petty spurge, sweet violet, daisy, primrose & a few others that didn’t make the collage! So pretty now it’s reached ‘snowdrop carpet season!’
A yellow tassle male Hazel catkin with a bright red Sea Anenome like female flower in the foreground.
Bright pink hooded flowers of Cut-leaved Deadnettle, with distinctive double-toothed foliage in foreground.
A massive of green foliage against a dark, muddy riverbank, two buttercup flowers emerging from the greenery.
Red-tipped pink tubular flowers with dissected grey green leaves in background.
Four of my #winterten for #wildflowerhour Hazel, Cut-leaved Deadnettle, Lesser Celandine and Common Fumitory.
Top row L-R: Primula vulgaris (Primrose), Senecio vulgaris (Groundsel), Ulex europaeus (Gorse), Sonchus oleraceus (Smooth sowthistle). Centre: Leucanthemum vulgare (Ox eye daisy), Taraxacum (Dandelion). Bottom row L-R: Lapsana communis (Nipplewort) (?), Geranium robertianum (Herb Robert), Bellis perennis (daisy), Rosa rubiginosa (Sweet briar) or Rosa rugosa (Japanese rose, garden escape) (PlantNet suggests the former but latter looks more likely from Zoë Devlin's Wildflowers of Ireland).
For weeks in Iorras Aithneach, Conamara I only found the #WildflowerHour Winter One of gorse, but finally I have the #WinterTen, only three weeks before Imbolc! All from road verges in Glinnsce except for the primrose which was from the old ruined abbey in Tuaim Beola. IDs in the Alt text.
A #WinterTen for @wildflowerhour.bsky.social thanks to my #BlackfordBotanyBuddy & #NewYearPlantHunt @bsbibotany.bsky.social V cold but great plant hunting 🥶🌱🌸💚 Scratching my head re Field Madder tho - flower parts or leaves ? #WildFlowerHour All #BlackfordHill or #Bawsinch @scotwildlife.bsky.social
Good evening #WildflowerHour for the #winterTen
Pic 1 :Sweet Violets, Gorse, Thistle, Burdock and Ivy
Pic 2: White dead nettle, cow parsley, hogweed, hazel catkins, ragwort
Found a #wintereight rather than a #winterten today. Speedwell, groundsel, mustard & white dead nettle to start. #wildflowerhour
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Another from #Woodside and three from #Beckenham: black nightshade, gorse, red dead-nettle and groundsel.
#wildflowerhour #winterten these are from #Woodside tram stop: ragwort, wood avens and shrunken michaelmas daisies.
One flower and several buds of travellers joy, aka wild clematis, behind a metal fence.
Rather blurred pic of hogweed behind a metal fence.
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At #WaddonMarsh tram stop #croydon I found these four: traveller’s joy flower and buds, annual mercury, a blurry hogweed and some black horehound.
A variety of flowering plants including pink thistles, Common Vetch and Musk Mallow, white Cow Parsley and Oxeye Daisy, flowering grasses too.
#WinterTen for #Wildflowerhour Oxeye Daisy, Musk Mallow, Common Flax, Common Knapweed, Common Vetch, Cow Parsley, Cock's-foot, Sticky Mouse-ear, Spear Thistle and False Oat-grass.
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Second group: yarrow, goosefoot and sowthistle. All at Woodside tramstop #croydon
#wildflowerhour down to six of the #winterten and all looking very worse-for-wear this week. First three: groundsel, bristly oxtongue and ragwort. #croydon
A white flowers with five divided petals (White Campion), Clusters of yellow pea flowers (Ribbed Melilot), white and pink umbellifer flowers (Hogweed), yellow button flowers (Tansy), bright red pea flowers (Crimson Clover) and pink umbellifer flowers (Wild Angelica).
Second part of my dozen #winterten for #wildflowerhour White Campion, Ribbed Melilot, Hogweed, Pansy, Crimson Clover a d Wild Angelica.
Main picture white dock flowers over a heart-shaped leaf (Buckwheat), a purple dandelion flower (Chicory), pink flower with a hood and beloved bottom lip (Red Dead-nettle, pinkish clusters of flowers (Redshank), foamy white flowers (Meadowsweet) and four-petal led white flowers and pink-tinged buds (Holly).
First six of my #winterten for #wildflowerhour Buckwheat, Chicory, Red Dead-nettle, Redshank, Meadowsweet and Holly.
Ten feisty flowers brightening the wet November days in town and in the Oswestry hills: Devil's bit scabious, musk mallow, meadorw cranesbill, herb Robert, self-heal, hogweed, hawkbit, viper's bugloss, daisypnll9 and evening primrose. #WinterTen #WildflowerHour
Red Clover, Mallow, Gorse, Bramble, Groundsel, Red Campion, Common Mouse-ear, Creeping Thistle, Common Sowthistle and Sea Mayweed.
#Wildflowerhour #WinterTen. Flowers found in Lancashire this week.
Clockwise from top left, white flowers and pink buds of Holly, a rather bedraggled white floelwer with creamy anthers (Bramble), a cluster of pink pea flowers (Red Campion), a cluster of white pea flowers (White Clover) and a bright yellow flower with yellow anthers (Creeping Buttercup).
Five more makes 11 for my #winterten #wildflowerhour
Clockwise from left. A Lilac flower with deeper veins and blue pollen (Common Flax), a pink stardust of a flower (Spear Thistle), a closed up flower with orange-red petals (Scarlet Pimpernel), a sunny looking Dandelion, closed up yellow flower with dingy green ray florets (Common Cat's-ear), a Daisy like flower covered in dew (Scentless Mayweed).
The first 6 of a #Winterten for #wildflowerhour
helva crispa, yarrow, daisy, green Alkanet, periwinkle, red & white dead nettles, devils bit scabious, shepherds purse & buttercup
For #wildflowerhour a #winterTen (or was it #theWinterTen) - well nine and a helva crispa, the nine are yarrow, daisy, green Alkanet, periwinkle, red & white dead nettles, devils bit scabious, shepherds purse & buttercup - the fungi had to be included, it’s so cute!
Scentless Mayweed, a larger version of the typical daisy flower, a yellow disc with large white rays.
Guernsey Fleabane. A close up of a single flower cluster, green hairy sepals enclosing a group of straw coloured flowers
Two last members of the #WinterTen from South Lancs this week. Scentless Mayweed and Guernsey Fleabane. #WildFlowerHour
Red dead nettle two pink flowers opposite each, tubular with a lip and hood
White dead nettle, groups of showy tubular white flowers with a lip and hood, clusters in groups next to nettle-like leaves
Prickly sow thistle, a slightly bedraggled yellow dandelion type flower
Annual meadow grass, tiny grey-green grass flowers on stalks sticking g out at right angles from the stem
More usual members of the #WinterTen Red Deadnettle, White Deadnettle, Prickly Sow-thistle and Annual Meadow-grass. #WildflowerHour
Crimson clover, a tight cluster of deep red pea flowers
Common fumitory, clusters of odd/looking inflated pink tubular flowers with purple red tips
Field pansy, a creamy white flower with an egg-yolk yellow centre and five deep purple stripes.
Lady’s bedstraw clusters of tiny, starry yellow flowers
Four of the less common representatives of the #WinterTen Crimson clover, Common Fumitory, Field Pansy and Lady’s Bedstraw. #WildFlowerHour
Surprised to see Sweet Violet under the garden hedge this morning. The Fox and Cubs was emerging by the side of a garden pot. #wildflowerhour #WinterTen
Ivy, cranebill geranium, flat weed/cats ear, snowberry, comfrey, Angelica, hogweed, white dead nettle, ragwort & dandelion
For #wildFlowerHour #WinterTen - still a lot of flowers out there, but couldn’t resist including the seedhead (which I think is Angelica) and the snowberries, which fitted the colour palatte!
