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Anglesey Flora Group @angleseyfloragroup.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The much berated Rosa Rugosa for #Wildflowerhour It can be invasive, but the flowers smell divine and the #Seedheads are beautiful

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TrevorTheBotanist @trevorthebotanist.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Always nice to clock up a Vice-county first, especially when it’s as impressive as this! Dense-flowered Mullein (Verbascum densiflorum) has only ever been recorded five times in Wales so it was great to find it on rough ground at the edge of Rhosneigr, Ynys Môn (Anglesey) #Wildflowerhour

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TrevorTheBotanist @trevorthebotanist.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Grass-of-Parnassus (Parnassia palustris) in dunes at Newborough, Ynys Môn (Anglesey). Such a breathtaking and obliging little beauty, it always seems to present its flowers perfectly #wildflowerhour

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Anglesey Flora Group @angleseyfloragroup.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Fabulous crafting from Kioko, a new member of Anglesey Flora Group

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Anglesey Flora Group @angleseyfloragroup.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Spent an interesting couple of days helping staff from National Botanic Garden of Wales seed bank project on #Anglesey Collected Golden Samphire, Lesser Water-plantain, Seaside Centaury & Marsh Pea. Here's a selection of what else we saw including lovely displays of Autumn Gentian #Wildflowerhour

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Anglesey Flora Group @angleseyfloragroup.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Gypsywort, Lycopus europaeus seen on our survey at RSPB Valley Wetlands this week. Known by #CommonNames as Water Horehound and Bugleweed. #Wildflowerhour I think it should be called Necklace of Pearls or Whorl Flower

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The Species Recovery Trust @speciesrecovery.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Our very own @trevorthebotanist.bsky.social has been out surveying Field Gentians in north Wales - and had a bit of a surprise!

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Julian Hughes @penrhynbirder.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

A "spectacular year" for Field Gentians on Ynys Môn. Fantastic! @angleseyfloragroup.bsky.social

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TrevorTheBotanist @trevorthebotanist.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Golden-samphire (Limbarda crithmoides) looking splendid beside Afon Crigyll at Traeth Cymyran, Ynys Môn (Anglesey) #DaisyFamily #Wildflowerhour

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TrevorTheBotanist @trevorthebotanist.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Fearing the worst, I was amazed to find record numbers of Field Gentian at Twyni Cymyran, Ynys Môn (Cymyran Dunes, Anglesey). Seems that spring was SO wet the dune slacks have held on to their moisture, despite the drought. There were thousands of plants @speciesrecovery.bsky.social #Wildflowerhour

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Anglesey Flora Group @angleseyfloragroup.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

The next Anglesey Flora Group field trip is on Monday 10 August. If you'd like to join us to explore the RSPB owned land around Afon Crigyll please DM me for more details. The opportunity to see Water Chickweed, Water Plantain, Fringed Water-lily & Bur Marigold etc.

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Anglesey Flora Group @angleseyfloragroup.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Super exciting this week to have a new plant found on #Anglesey Adam the new warden at RSPB Valley Wetlands discovered Water Chickweed, Stellaria aquatica in a part of the reserve that's usually under water. We did a count a few days ago and discovered that there's approx 170 plants #Wildflowerhour

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Anglesey Flora Group @angleseyfloragroup.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Special access to survey The Skerries this week. Remarkably few species, the majority of cover being Sea Mayweed and Rock Sea-spurrey, with occasional Scarlet Pimpernel and a few Spear-leaved Orache. Fantastic experience especially with seeing the terribly cute Tern chicks. #Wildflowerhour #Anglesey

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Anglesey Flora Group @angleseyfloragroup.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Our first survey this week was to the RSPB Tern colony on the Inland Sea #Anglesey A lovely chance to explore for saltmarsh plants with the warden Filip. Here's Sea Purslane, Annual Sea-blite, Sea-milkwort & Common Cord-grass #Wildflowerhour

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Anglesey Flora Group @angleseyfloragroup.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Amazingly there were Orchids #StillFlowering at RSPB Valley Wetlands during our survey there this week #Wildflowerhour

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Catherine Duigan @cduigan.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Peak #orchid season at Cors Bodeilio National #Nature Reserve - Epipactis palustris, the marsh helleborine #wildflowerhour #Anglesey #YnysMôn #Fen #wetland #botany #Wales @bsbicymru.bsky.social

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Anglesey Flora Group @angleseyfloragroup.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Anglesey Flora Group field trip on 14 July to RSPB Valley Wetlands. All welcome to join us, whether you're local or a visitor. DM for full details.

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Wren Franklin @wrenfranklin.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Met this magnificent Beech tree on Anglesey - a real monster. @ancienttreeforum.bsky.social @angleseyfloragroup.bsky.social

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Anglesey Flora Group @angleseyfloragroup.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Still stunning displays of #Orchids at Aberffraw Dunes today. Marsh Helleborine, Centaury, Eyebright, Biting Stonecrop, Early Marsh-orchid & colour variations of Pyramidal Orchids #Wildflowerhour #Anglesey

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Anglesey Flora Group @angleseyfloragroup.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Wellies definitely needed for this week's field trip to one of the #Anglesey Fens. Marsh Cinquefoil, Fly Orchid, Round-Leaved Sundew, Water Plantain,Common Twayblade & Zigzag Clover #Wildflowerhour

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Mandy Forde @mandyforde.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

My favourite find from yesterday's @angleseyfloragroup.bsky.social survey at RAF Valley #Anglesey Gorgeous Kidney Vetch #Wildflowerhour

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Anglesey Flora Group @angleseyfloragroup.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

A privilege to be able to survey around the airfield at RAF Valley #Anglesey yesterday. Some superb wildflowers growing so close to the runway. #Wildflowerhour

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Anglesey Flora Group @angleseyfloragroup.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

We have two upcoming field trips over the next week. One at a fantastic 'private' location that botanists usually can't access & the other at an #Anglesey fen to look for Orchids. Locals and visitors welcome. Get in touch for more details if you'd like to join us.

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Mandy Forde @mandyforde.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Today on Tywyn Aberffraw #Anglesey I found lots of Bulbous Buttercup plus a few Meadow Buttercups #ButtercupChallenge #Wildflowerhour

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Mandy Forde @mandyforde.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

A sure winner if there was a 'Whispy White' category #WildFlowerShow #Wildflowerhour Taken on Cymyran beach #Anglesey today

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Mandy Forde @mandyforde.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

There's been some erosion on the Crigyll estuary but this brave little clump of Bird's-foot Trefoil has managed to cling on looking like a hanging basket on the sand bank #WildFlowerShow #Wildflowerhour

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Mandy Forde @mandyforde.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Teeny tiny Sea Milkwort an entry for 'Miniatures' category #WildFlowerShow #Wildflowerhour

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Mandy Forde @mandyforde.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Perfect week for #Wildflowerhour #OrchidChallenge with the Northern Marsh-orchids now full flourish in my #Anglesey meadow. Last year I counted 350, think there's going to be far more this year.

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Peter Brash @peterbrash.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

#orchidchallenge for #wildflowerhour A late Early Purple Orchid, a freshly emerging Common Spotted Orchid and two Heath Spotted Orchids from Anglesey.

Early Purple Orchid. A deep purple pink orchid in a grassland with others of the same species in the background.

Common Spotted Orchid. A newly opening orchid spike pointing to the top right corner of the frame. The first pink flowers with purple tracing, are starting to open at the bottom of the spike.

Heath Spotted Orchid. A stubby spike of pale pink flowers, with deeper pink tracery are open on the bottom of the spike. The spike emerges from wind-cropped heather and a patch of blue sky is in the top right corner of the frame.

Heath Spotted Orchid. A pink flower spike with the lower lips of the flowers showing the distinctive double loops of deeper pink tracery.

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Peter Brash @peterbrash.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

After 40 years of botany I finally became a rock-rose completist with these Spotted Rock-rose on Anglesey. A bonus Sphaerophoria scripta hoverfly joined in.I didn't recognise this as Spotted Rock-rose until I looked closely. The spots can be almost invisible to the untrained eye. #wildflowerhour

Spotted Rock Rose. Close up of a six-petalled pale yellow flower with a white style in the centre and yellow-orange pollen tipped anthers. All but one of the petals has an obvious chestnut-brown mark close to the centre.

Spotted Rock Rose. A six-petalled yellow flower with a white style in the centre and yellow-orange pollen tipped anthers. All but one of the petals has an obvious chestnut-brown mark close to the centre. The leaves have a cracked appearance, most are green but some are reddening, heather leaves in the background offer scale.

Spotted Rock Rose. Close up of a five-petalled yellow flower with a white style in the centre and yellow-orange pollen tipped anthers. All but one of the petals has an obvious chestnut-brown mark close to the centre. The plant is growing in a pocket of bare soil in a cleft in a granite Rock.

Spotted Rock Rose. Close up of a six-petalled pale yellow flower with a white style in the centre and yellow-orange pollen tipped anthers. The petals are mostly clear but two on the left hand side have the tell-tale darker marks that are a feature of the species. A slender-bodied orange and black hoverfly is poised on the upper petals with head pointing down and wings spread.

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Peter Brash @peterbrash.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Gorgeous early morning sunlight on these stars of maritime grassland on Anglesey. Bird's-foot Trefoil, Thrift, Sea Campion and Buck's-horn Plantain. #wildflowerhour

Yeallow-orange pea flowers backlit by early morning sun. The edges of the five-foil leaves are picked out of the gloom in the background.

Shafts of sunlight streak across the frame of the photograph which shows the deep-pink papery flowers of thrift against the backdrop of the cushion of strap shaped dark green leaves.

Backlit flowers of White Campion. Pure white flowers emerging from inflated pink veined, straw coloured calyx. The grey-green leaves are mixed with fibe-leaved grasses.

Buck's-horn Plantain, a mass of brownish -straw coloured spikes arise from fleshy branching foliage. The rather unspectacular spikes are crowned with a mass of bright yellow anthers giving a striking effect.

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Anglesey Flora Group @angleseyfloragroup.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Early-purple Orchids, Orchis mascula found on Anglesey Flora Group survey of a local churchyard. #OrchidChallenge #WildflowerHour

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Anglesey Flora Group @angleseyfloragroup.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Sea Radish making a brash entry for #WildFlowerShow Thinking it could win 'Widest Plant' #Wildflowerhour

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Anglesey Flora Group @angleseyfloragroup.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

The next Anglesey Flora Group field meeting is on Thursday 7 May to Clegir Mawr a 38 acre former landfill site now a SSSI. Everyone welcome whether you're local or visiting #Anglesey Contact me direct for further details if you'd like to attend. Photo is from our 2022 visit to the site.

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Anglesey Flora Group @angleseyfloragroup.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Stunning displays of Spring Squill on the coast at Bwa Du near Rhoscolyn this week #Anglesey #Wildflowerhour

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Anglesey Flora Group @angleseyfloragroup.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

A colourful selection from today's walk on Aberffraw dunes #Anglesey Common dog-violet, Heath dog-violet, Cuckoo flower, Mouse-ear Hawkweed & Milkwort. Lots of Orchid's with flowerbuds just starting to peep out from their rosettes. #Wildflowerhour

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Foot printer 👣 @manifestthefuture.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

There are wildflowers everwhere atm! Here's a sample of some seen on a local Anglesey walk this week: Celandine, wood anemone, wild garlic, wild cherry, red campion, iris (not quite in bloom), common dog violets (x2), honesty, & blue(& varie-coloured )bells, & comfrey #wildflowerhour

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Foot printer 👣 @manifestthefuture.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

There were so many hedgerow plants & flowers along the Anglesey lanes today, I had to make a collage for this week's #wildflowerhour #HedgerowChallenge Common vetch, hawthorn blossom, common dog violet, knotted hedge-parsley, red campion, germander speedwell, garlic mustard & cow parsley

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Mandy Forde @mandyforde.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

I was at RSPB South Stack on Chough nest monitoring training earlier in the week but couldn't stop myself from taking photos of the flowers. Three of my favourites Sea Campion, Thrift and Spring Squill. #Wildflowerhour #Anglesey

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Catherine Duigan @cduigan.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Cowslips Briallen y gwanwyn. Primula veris At Penrhos Coastal Park #Anglesey #wildflowerhour Long stalks are believed to foretell a wet summer, while short stalks indicate a dry one. #folklore #botany #Wales

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Mandy Forde @mandyforde.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Some of the wildflowers seen today on the @angleseyfloragroup.bsky.social field trip to Aberffraw dunes #Wildflowerhour

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Mandy Forde @mandyforde.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

More finds from Aberffraw dunes with @angleseyfloragroup.bsky.social Less colourful but just as interesting - Carex arenaria, Mibora minima and Crassula tilea #Wildflowerhour

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Mandy Forde @mandyforde.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Found on this week's survey with @angleseyfloragroup.bsky.social Absolutely stunning Purple Willow 😍 #Wildflowerhour

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Anglesey Flora Group @angleseyfloragroup.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Our survey at Mona industrial estate earlier this week revealed 81 species for a monad that previously only had 8 records. Mostly basal rosettes but a few in flower including Rue-leaved Saxifrage, Danish Scurvy-grass, Thale Cress and Common Whitlow Grass #Wildflowerhour #Anglesey

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Anglesey Flora Group @angleseyfloragroup.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

The yellow flowers of early Spring now making way for pink and white blooms. Blinks, Dove's-foot Crane's-bill, Snake's head Fritillary, Cut-leaved Dead Nettle #Wildflowerhour

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Anglesey Flora Group @angleseyfloragroup.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Next Anglesey Flora Group meeting Monday 23 March 10am Exploring a monad with only 8 records. So hopefully we'll be able to add quite a few new species to the list. Message me for further details if you'd like to join us on Monday. @cofnod.org.uk @bsbibotany.bsky.social @bsbicymru.bsky.social

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Anglesey Flora Group @angleseyfloragroup.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

A cold start in the early morning at Menai Bridge today where 3 members of #Anglesey Flora Group carried out the #NYPH We found 47 species, up on the 34 we found on the same route last year. @bsbibotany.bsky.social @bsbicymru.bsky.social

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Anglesey Flora Group @angleseyfloragroup.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

What a pleasure to meet @trevorthebotanist.bsky.social at yesterday's #BIBCONF25 Trevor's 5 minute presentation on Welsh Groundsel sounded like it would make a fascinating full length presentation at a future conference. @bsbibotany.bsky.social @bsbicymru.bsky.social

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