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From around Liverpool Bay this week for #Wildflowerhour

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Kidney Vetch, Parsley Piert, Yellow Rattle and Hop Trefoil current #lawnflowers all from locally collected seed #wildflowerhour

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Can’t see any recent records for Knotted Hedge Parsley in Merseyside. Found in the biodiversity hotspot of ‘The Asda’ carpark along with Narrow Leaved Pepperwort #wildflowerhour

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Ben @benrl.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Common Mallow and Dwarf Mallow-side by side comparison- both frequent on pavement edges in Wirral #wildflowerhour

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Cheerful Button Weed (Cotula coronopifolia) on a traffic island in Wirral. Widely established on the salt marshes of the Dee estuary but my first time seeing it inland #urbanbotany

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Ben @benrl.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Bee Orchids starting to flower at Broadgreen Hospital in Liverpool. The mowing regime timing greatly affects numbers. This one is protected in a small planted wildflower area. Best years 60+ spikes found #wildflowerhour

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Ben @benrl.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Bee visiting Greater Butterfly Orchid. I presumed they were pollinated by moths #wildflowerhour

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Ben @benrl.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Some incidental moths noticed in limestone grassland, Wales #teammoth

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Water Avens (Geum rivale) with lots of hybrid (Geum x intermedia) of varying forms in ancient woodland Flintshire #wildflowerhour

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Shepherds Cress (Teesdalia nudicaulis) seed heads from above in Denbighshire #wildflowerhour

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Hutchinsia (Hornungia petraea) surprisingly still in flower. Tiny with a black ant for scale in Denbighshire #wildflowerhour

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Ben @benrl.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Early Purple Orchids in Llangollen #wildflowerhour

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Red Campion Anther Smut (Microbotryum silenes-dioicae) in North Wales #fungifriday

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Ben @benrl.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

This guy was knocking on the window trying to get in last night. The glowing eyes put me off a bit so didn’t invite it in #ukmoths

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Ben @benrl.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Two Medicks which I haven’t seen before in North West. Growing on converted landfill site. The seedpods of Toothed Medick made it stand out from the commoner species #wildflowerhour

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Ben @benrl.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Tiny Adders Tongue amongst Spring Sandwort in North Wales. My first time seeing this plant #wildflowerhour

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Ben @benrl.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Field Mouse-ear (Cerastium arvense) in grass verge has escaped the mowers so far this year. Not very common in the North West #wildflowerhour

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My first sighting of Mossy Stonecrop (Crassula tillaea). I think the spiky bits are flowers but too small for my camera. Growing in perfusion on path edges in Beaumaris #wildflowerhour

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Blinks (Montia fontana) on dry clifftops in Anglesey. These must be a different subspecies to the ones I see in roadside gutters at home and submerged in mountain streams. The flowers are absolutely tiny #Wildflowerhour

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Dunes dotted with tiny bright blue flowers of Early Forget me not (Myosotis ramosissima). Anglesey. #wildflowerhour

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