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Big Meadow Search @bigmeadowsearch.bsky.social · 21h

Butcher’s-broom, Ruscus aculeatus. Up to 100cm. Evergreen. Stiff, glossy, spiny, dark green ‘leaves’. These are actually ‘cladodes’ which are flattened stems. Small yellowish-green flowers arise in the centre of the ‘leaves’. Red fruits 10-15mm.

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Big Meadow Search @bigmeadowsearch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Churchyards are one of the grassland types included in the BMS project. Caring for God’s Acre have a webinar on churchyard plant folklore in November. Booking details at

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AGM and Herbal Heritage: Traditional Uses & Folklore of Burial Ground Plants – Caring For God's Acre – the conservation charity for burial grounds across the UK

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Big Meadow Search @bigmeadowsearch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Black Nightshade, Solanum nigrum. Up to 70cm. Leaves up to 5cm long and variably toothed. White flowers with blunt sepals. Shiny black mature berries.

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Big Meadow Search @bigmeadowsearch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ragged-Robin, Silene flos-cuculi. I don’t think I have ever spotted one flowering in October before.

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Big Meadow Search @bigmeadowsearch.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Wireplant, Muehlenbeckia complexa. Leaves less than 2cm with distinct petiole. Autumn flowering. Small cream-greenish flowers. Native to New Zealand. First reported in the wild in 1906 on Scilly isles. Map is from BSBI Atlas

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Big Meadow Search @bigmeadowsearch.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Dodder, Cuscuta epithymum. Parasitic especially on gorse sp., Wild Thyme and Heather. Red, thread-like stems. Shoots attach themselves with sucker-like pads (haustoria) that extract nutrients. 5-petalled pale flowers with maroon base

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Big Meadow Search @bigmeadowsearch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Autumn Squill, Scilla autumnalis. Up to 25cm. 4-8 narrow leaves up to 12cm long. 4-20 pale lilac flowers with 3 petals and 3 sepals that look the same. Purple anthers. Distribution map taken from BSBI Atlas

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Big Meadow Search @bigmeadowsearch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Japanese Knotweed. Surprised to see how many inverts were using this. In 5 mins: Peacock, Hornet, Honeybee, Dock Bugs, 7-spot Ladybird, 3 sp. parasitic wasp, various Diptera & Bumblebees. Clearly late flowers are providing food source, a place to shelter and a hunting ground.

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Big Meadow Search @bigmeadowsearch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Fascinating to see a European Hornet swoop in, catch and dispatch a Honeybee whilst dangling from one leg. They tussled for a little while before the head was bitten off and then the rest of the body was taken off presumably to feed larvae back at the nest

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Big Meadow Search @bigmeadowsearch.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This is the dinkiest Robin’s Pincushion gall that I have found so far. (My index finger gives some scale). Has anyone seen smaller?

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Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland (BSBI) @bsbibotany.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Keen to support the next generation of botanists? Identiplant, our online #WildFlowerID course, is the gateway for many beginners. We'd like to offer more student spaces we but need more tutors to support them: could you be one? Join us 7pm next Tues to find out www.tickettailor.com/events/botan...

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Identiplant Tutor recruitment information evening – Zoom, Tue 22 Sep 2026 - Join us for an introduction to the Identiplant Tutor role on Zoom. If you are considering applying to become a tutor or simp...

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Big Meadow Search @bigmeadowsearch.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Dodder and I enjoying the view near Salcombe

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Big Meadow Search @bigmeadowsearch.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

My #favouriteplant for #wildflowerhour is a new species for me in 2026, Marsh St. John’s-wort

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Big Meadow Search @bigmeadowsearch.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Thought I had found an interesting and new critter…….turned out to be a wood chip 🫣

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Big Meadow Search @bigmeadowsearch.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A striking looking Male Fern on my walk today

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wildflowerhour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

For the last weekly challenge, we want to know what was your favourite plant that you’ve spotted from across Britain and Ireland this year? Share your pics for #wildflowerhour this Sunday 8-9pm using the hashtag #favouriteplant and we’ll celebrate it with you! 🥳🌿🌸

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Big Meadow Search @bigmeadowsearch.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Nobody guessed so here is the answer. Common Stork’s-bill, Erodium cicutarium agg. Up to 60cm. Basal rosette of finely cut leaves. Leaves up to 18cm with 4-7 pairs of leaflets that are in turn deeply cut. Pinkish flowers in groups of 3-7, up to 18mm across. Long-beaked fruits

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Big Meadow Search @bigmeadowsearch.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Anybody fancy guessing what this three-lobed cotyledon/seedling leaf belongs to? Answer to follow

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wildflowerhour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Hips, haws, nuts and berries! It’s starting to look a bit autumnal out there! So this week’s challenge is #fruits! Share your finds of wild & naturalised fruits for #wildflowerhour this Sunday 8-9pm. Happy fruit hunting! ☺️🍒

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Big Meadow Search @bigmeadowsearch.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Well that’s it for the Big Meadow Search project for 2026. I hope you have enjoyed the last 92 days of social media posts. Thanks to everyone who has undertaken a search, liked and commented on posts and bought our books along the way

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Big Meadow Search @bigmeadowsearch.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Crown Vetch, Securigera varia. Up to 100cm. Straggly. 5-12 pairs of leaflets plus a terminal one. Umbels of 10-20 flowers ranging from white to pink to purple. Pods up to 6cm with little construction between the seeds.

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Big Meadow Search @bigmeadowsearch.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Hedgerow Crane’s-bill, Geranium pyrenaicum. Up to 60cm. Hairy. Opposite leaves, up to 9cm across and lobed up to a maximum of 2/3 of the way to the base. Notched petals up to 1cm. Downy, non-ridged capsules

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Big Meadow Search @bigmeadowsearch.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The highlight of today’s soggy walk over the border in Powys was 2 Hares and the most random thing was a Hosta growing in a hedge!

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Big Meadow Search @bigmeadowsearch.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

A collective noun for moths is an ‘eclipse’ but I wonder if Flounced Rustic moth gatherings should be called a Fancy or a Flutter or even a Flamboyance. Got to take your hat off to the Victorians for the fabulous moth names

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Big Meadow Search @bigmeadowsearch.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Mossy Saxifrage, Saxifraga hypnoides. Up to 20cm. Forms mats. Upright glandular hairy stems with droopy flower buds. White flowers with 5 petals. Leaves have long basal hairs and 3-5 narrow, pointed lobes.

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Big Meadow Search @bigmeadowsearch.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Sea Arrowgrass, Triglochin maritima. Up to 60cm. Robust rhizomes. Fleshy, dense tuft. All leaves arise from stem base. Leaves 15-60cm by 2-3mm. Numerous stalked, green flowers. Ripe fruits are erect and oval, 3-5mm long and in 6 segments.

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wildflowerhour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Some wildflowers have seed heads that are truly spectacular! The challenge this week is to find some and then share your lovely pics for #WildflowerHour this Sunday 8-9pm using the hashtag #SeedHeads! Any wild or naturalised blooms you find too are of course always welcome!

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Big Meadow Search @bigmeadowsearch.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Pale Persicaria, Persicaria lapathifolia. Typically to 70cm. Leaves narrowly oval, may have dark blotch. Ochrea either hairless or with fringe of sparse, short hairs. Dense flower spike. Upper stem & flower stalk have yellow dot-like glands. Tepals white to greenish to pink.

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Big Meadow Search @bigmeadowsearch.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Greater Knapweed, Centaurea scabiosa. Usually up to 90cm. Stems branched. Leaves hairy, up to 25cm long and deeply divided apart from uppermost ones. Pale bracts with black-brown, fringed top border. Solitary, terminal flower heads, up to 6cm with enlarged outer florets

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Big Meadow Search @bigmeadowsearch.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

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Big Meadow Search @bigmeadowsearch.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Rock Sea-lavender, Limonium binervosum agg. Usually up to 30cm. Small, compact basal rosette. Leaves have short, winged stalk. Flowering stems branch below the mid point

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Big Meadow Search @bigmeadowsearch.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Common Sea-lavender, Limonium vulgare. Usually to 40cm. Waxy, strap-shaped, long-stalked leaves. Large, loose basal rosette. Flowering stems branch above mid-point (Lax-flowered Sea-lavender: stems branch lower than mid point). Flowers 8mm across in dense spikes, 5 lilac petals

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Big Meadow Search @bigmeadowsearch.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

A brown crispy car park still yielded 28 species

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Big Meadow Search @bigmeadowsearch.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Just one week left in the 2026 Big Meadow Search, time has flown. Thanks to everyone who has already submitted a search onto our website. If you can get out and look at a patch near you this week, that would be great. Details are here bigmeadowsearch.co.uk/submit

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Big Meadow Search @bigmeadowsearch.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Hop, Humulus lupulus. Climber with shoots up to 8m. Stem and leaves roughly hairy. Opposite leaves with 3-5 coarsely-toothed lobes. Fruits are called ‘cones’ and are 3-5cm long. Yellow disc-shaped glands on the leaves

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Big Meadow Search @bigmeadowsearch.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

For #wallplants for #wildflowerhour it’s a Himalayan Balsam plant growing out of a stone bridge about 15 feet up

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Big Meadow Search @bigmeadowsearch.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Common Rock-rose, Helianthemum nummularium (2 of 2). A larval food plant for Green Hairstreak, Callophrys rubi. The ‘rubi’ part was provided by Linnaeus as bramble (Rubus) was thought to be the only larval food plant back in the 1750s. It actually uses a wide range of plants (see comments)

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Big Meadow Search @bigmeadowsearch.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Common Rock-rose, Helianthemum nummularium (1 of 2). Up to 50cm. Woody stem with multiple reddish, wiry side branches. Strap-shaped, dark green leaves, 5mm wide with one distinct vein and woolly below. 5-petalled yellow flowers up to 25mm across. Drooping buds

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Big Meadow Search @bigmeadowsearch.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

The biggest Knotgrass plant I have come across so far

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Big Meadow Search @bigmeadowsearch.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Marsh St. John’s-wort, Hypericum elodes. Up to 40cm. Creeping stems, forms patches. Leaves grey-green, circular to oval with dense soft hairs. Leaves clasp the stem. Flowers up to 2cm with reddish glandular hairs. No black glands

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Big Meadow Search @bigmeadowsearch.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I think iRecord AI is having an off day!

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Big Meadow Search @bigmeadowsearch.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Black Mustard, Brassica nigra. Up to 200cm tall. Widely spaced branches. Stem bristly at the base. All leaves are stalked: lower ones up to 20cm with large terminal lobe, uppermost leaves unlobed. Petals 9-13mm and 2x length of sepals. Hairless, keeled, adpressed pods with a seedless beak

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Biological Recording Company @biologicalrecording.co.uk · 20/08/2026

Learn how to restore species-rich hay meadows with Carol Edmondson. Discover site assessment, preparation, sowing, monitoring and long-term management techniques to create wildflower-rich grasslands that support biodiversity 🌎 🧪 Enrol here: 🔗 courses.biologicalrecording.co.uk/courses/hay-...

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Hay Meadow Restoration: Practical Guide to Biodiversity

Learn how to restore species-rich hay meadows with this practical online webinar. Explore meadow ecology, site selection, preparation, sowing, and long-term management to create biodiverse wildflower ...

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Big Meadow Search @bigmeadowsearch.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Dewberry, Rubus caesius (2 of 2). Larval food plant (along with Bramble) for Buff Arches moth, Habrosyne pyritoides. Flies late June to early August. Common in England, Wales and Ireland

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Big Meadow Search @bigmeadowsearch.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Dewberry, Rubus caesius (1 of 2). Slender stems up to 100cm. Stems have short, weak, curved prickles. Leaves divided into 3 leaflets (lateral leaflets stalkless). White flowers up to 3cm across. Fruits have few but large segments (drupelets) and a whitish bloom.

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wildflowerhour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Walls may not seem the most hospitable of environments but the plants that can survive there can be surprising! See if you can find any flowering #WallPlants for this week’s challenge & share your pics for #wildflowerhour this Sunday 8-9pm!

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Big Meadow Search @bigmeadowsearch.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Grey Field-speedwell, Veronica polita. Stems up to 30cm in a scrambling habit. Toothed leaves. Bright blue flowers with blue lower lip. 2-lobed fruit with long glandular hairs and shorter non-glandular hairs.

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