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#WildflowerHour More from last week - Dungeness SSSI trip: Common Dodder (Cuscuta epithymum) - we found it in a different location last year, but this is a slightly better image just about showing its minute pink flowers, as well as far reaching strands... @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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#WildflowerHour More from last week - Dungeness SSSI trip: White Mullein (Verbascum lychnitis) - a small colony of several plants seen on previous years at a shingle/calcareous soil junction. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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#WildflowerHour More from last week - Dungeness SSSI trip: Common Toadflax (Linaria vulgaris) - less than 1m from a large deep water filled gravel pit. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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bevm1066 @bevm1066.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

#WildflowerHour More from last week - Dungeness SSSI trip: Prickly Lettuce (Lactuca serriola) with flowers above my head... @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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#WildflowerHour Dungeness SSSI with its shingle"slacks" has so much to see, but my highlight this trip was Nottingham Catchfly (Silene nutans) - first ever sighting, but I didn't see any White Spot moths, who apparently hide in daytime IN the shingle! @bsbibotany.bsky.social l

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bevm1066 @bevm1066.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

‪ #WildflowerHour On Thursday at Dungeness point it was, even at mid day, foggy - so much so that the lighthouse horn was sounding, but who could NOT notice the Viper's-bugloss (Echium vulgare) everywhere in full flower? @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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bevm1066 @bevm1066.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

#WildflowerHour When this Elephant hawk-moth wakes up in the evening, so I am told by an expert entomologist, it may become a #PollinatorPals - but not on this Bramble whose flowers have yet to open... @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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bevm1066 @bevm1066.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

@thekentacorn.bsky.social The English Oak Project I took this pic at the Blickling Estate, Norfolk and given the Jacobean house building dates, am assuming this Oak and its neighbours to be around 400 years old...!

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#WildflowerHour Common Bistort (Persicaria bistorta) - id confirmed by leaf shape, though hidden by the long grass in this image; seen on a wetland bank in Upper Wensleydale. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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#WildflowerHour Sweet Cicely (Myrrhis odorata) - one of the most distinctive Apiaceae (= Umbelliferae) with its elongated seed pods. Dominating Wensleydale's roadside grass verges, just now. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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#WildflowerHour i think this is a Small-leafed Lime (Tilia cordata), just coming into flower, but already showy... didn't check the leaf underside veins, so not sure. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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bevm1066 @bevm1066.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Those Jacobean brick makers and brick layers knew how to delight the eye!

Four top-adjoined brick chimneys at Blickling Hall, Norfolk: hexagon shaped bricks and extraordinary flourish at their tops!

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#WildflowerHour Judging by the 7 stems that have been broken off these plants, others have been attracted to them... Growing on a south facing sunny roadside verge, so presumably Eastern Gladiolus (G communis). Seen on previous years, so happily established in this location. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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bevm1066 @bevm1066.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

#WildflowerHour Is this Procumbent Yellow Sorrel (Oxalis corniculata)? No sign really of any purplish colouring, so maybe Least Yellow Sorrel (O. exilis)? Growing on stone chippings in a fairly dry partially shaded location... [Ruler shows the size.] @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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#Wildflowerhour For me one of the most overlooked usually only green leafed plant is great when flowering - a little colony of Ribwort Plantain (Plantago lanceolata). @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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#Wildflowerhour Tree flowers seem to be often overlooked, so this Scots Pine (Pinus sylvestris) - id based on pairs of needles, though not obvious in image - looked rather splendid. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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#Wildflowerhour Early Purple Orchids (Orchis mascula), I guess... in the local cemetery. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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#Wildflowerhour My first sighting this year of a Dog Rose (Rosa canina) but not at the usual eye level ot higher, this flower was no more than 10cm above the field edge soil! @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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bevm1066 @bevm1066.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

#Wildflowerhour Hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna) is at its best locally... maybe a little early? @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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‪ #WildflowerHour I had some sort of 'Bluesky server' problem, so missed posting quite a few images tonight; but, very late, here is one I could not miss posting!: Bluebell (Hyacinthoides non-scripta) @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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bevm1066 @bevm1066.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

There is so much plant life going on here at the River Valley, Wakehurst (Kew) - visited by hundreds, but only fleetingly. We stopped, somewhat go smacked, for about 15 minutes but only took this one picture. Too much else in the brain trying to absorb this wonderous peaceful place...

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#WildflowerHour Cowslips (Primula veris) in a field that I had not guessed might be a calcareous soil type - their preferred habitat - but maybe it is? @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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#WildflowerHour Not quite a wildflower... Sea-kale (Crambe maritima) seen in the Kew Seed Bank raised bed at Wakehurst; but notably some 30km from its usual seaside shingle habitat...! @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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#WildflowerHour Well, of course, I had to take yet another picture of a grassy bank covered in English Bluebells (Hyacinthoides non-scripta) - the were particularly long stemmed in among grasses flowering too. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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#WildflowerHour The trees are in bloom at this time of year. Horse Chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum) must be one of the showiest! We have several seedlings popped up in the gardeen - I asuume the squirrels were saving them but, as usual, forget where they had put them! @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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A bit too late for the #cruciferchallenge on #wildflowerhour tonight - Garlic Mustard (Alliaria petiolata) - I knew I had taken a pic TODAY for it! @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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#wildflowerhour When I stopped to photograph this wonderful flower, I assumed it to be a Cuckooflower, but very white petals - washed out in the sun? @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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#wildflowerhour This little Wood Sedge (Carex sylvatica) is much less common than the bigger pendulous sedge, which is a frequent sight in the High Weald... @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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#wildflowerhour There was plenty to see on today's quite short walk through local woodland and heath, with Bluebells, Bugle and more in other posts... @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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#Wildflowerhour I think these are Wild Strawberries (Fragaria vesca) from the leaf, since flowers didn't give me much of a clue - growing on a railway bridge parapet wall. [Also see the lichen spots?!] @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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#Wildflowerhour Ramsons (Alium ursinum) are widspread in flower now... in the local area - possibly the most dominant flower now that Celadines and Wood Anenomies are dying back a bit. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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‪ #Wildflowerhour Greater Stitchwort (Stellaria holostea) - flowering well locally this year on the sunny edges of #Woodland @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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‪ #Wildflowerhour Garlic Mustard (Alliaria petiolata) - first sighting locally this year... seen today, in a damp quite dark #woodland location. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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