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Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland (BSBI) @bsbibotany.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Our annual membership special offer opens today! Join us this month & you'll enjoy 15 months of membership benefits for the price of 12. Those benefits are so numerous & fabulous you'll have to head over here to see them all: bsbipublicity.blogspot.com/2025/10/bsbi... Then join us! bsbi.org/join-us

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BSBI Cymru / Wales @bsbicymru.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Eurinllys tonnog (Hypericum undulatum) yn sir Benfro / Wavy St. John’s-wort in Pembrokeshire.

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BSBI Cymru / Wales @bsbicymru.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Welsh Mudwort / Lleidlys Cymreig (Limosella australis) by the Afon Dysynni. The water boatman and small fish joined me in admiring this little plant.

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BSBI Cymru / Wales @bsbicymru.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Very different looking seeds between Drosera anglica (gwlithlys mawr / great sundew) and D intermedia (gwlithlys hirddail / oblong-leaved sundew). In the hybrid between D anglica and D rotundifolia the seed pods don’t really open and the seeds are just soft pale brown bits. #sundews #drosera

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Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland (BSBI) @bsbibotany.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Huge congratulations to our lovely colleague James @bsbicountries.bsky.social on the publication today of his book, Endemic. More info here: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/endemic-9... Check out the thread below to find out about some of the endemic plants in the book inc Catacol Whitebeam & York Groundsel.

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Endemic

Meet the rare, obscure and utterly British species found nowhere else on earth.Around 70,000 species call Britain home, but how many of them can be found here a…

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BSBI Cymru / Wales @bsbicymru.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Fossil swamp-forest plants at Brymbo, Wrexham - where 300 million years ago giant lycopods (clubmosses) like Lepidodendron towered to over 120ft tall with massive horsetails like Calamites! Amazing to be able to see these at Stori Brymbo.

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BSBI Cymru / Wales @bsbicymru.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Great few days at the BSBI Wales Annual Summer meeting in Denbighshire this week / cawsom dri diwrnod gwych yng nghyfarfod haf blynyddol BSBI Cymru yn sir Ddinbych.

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BSBI Cymru / Wales @bsbicymru.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Galeopsis speciosa (large flowered hemp nettle / y benboeth amryliw) in Montgomeryshire today, with its leaf beetle Chrysolina fastuosa.

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BSBI Cymru / Wales @bsbicymru.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Here’s a tranquil little video of a cool mountain stream on Cadair Idris with Intermediate Water-Starwort (Callitriche brutia subsp. hamulata), with spanner-like tips to its narrow leaves.

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Mark Avery @markavery.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Botanists in Wales re-find missing plants. BSBI press release: markavery.info/2025/07/09/b... What is gone for good? What remains to be rediscovered? @bsbibotany.bsky.social @bsbicymru.bsky.social @bsbiscotland.bsky.social @bsbiireland.bsky.social @natreswales.bsky.social @plantlifeuk.bsky.social

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Cofnod Local Environmental Records Centre @cofnod.org.uk · 25/06/2025

@britishspiders.bsky.social recently digitised 15k slide 📸 from arachnologists John & Frances Murphy. Spotted that one of their Snowdon Lily 📸 was exactly same clump/angle 54yrs later. Great to see this Mountain Spiderwort clump still thriving. @bsbibotany.bsky.social @natreswales.bsky.social

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BSBI Cymru / Wales @bsbicymru.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Two Welsh endemic trees on the limestone in Breconshire - Welsh whitebeam (Sobus cambrensis) and lesser whitebeam (Sorbus minima) - particularly smitten with minima. #Sorbus #whitebeams

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BSBI Cymru / Wales @bsbicymru.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

True service tree / Cerddinen Morgannwg - the service tree of Glamorgan (Sorbus domestica) on the breezy cliff top above the Bristol Channel / Môr Hafren. #sorbusdomestica #highupplants

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BSBI Cymru / Wales @bsbicymru.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Super to find #HighUpPlants of Salix herbacea (Dwarf Willow) on Friday - a first record for 50 years on this hill, and hectad #NatureNetworks #RhwydweithiauNatur #wildflowerhour

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BSBI Cymru / Wales @bsbicymru.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Went to search for a little white flower on the Llŷn today - Didn’t find it, but saw other white-flowered beauties! Incl. Pale dog-violet (Viola lactea), white ramping fumitory (Fumaria capreolata), and field mouse-ear (Cerastium arvense). #NatureNetworks #RhwydweithiauNatur

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BSBI Cymru / Wales @bsbicymru.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Hutchinsia / beryn y graig (Hornungia petraea) in the dunes at Whiteford Burrows NNR, Gower v.c.41. #cabbagefamily #wildflowerhour

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BSBI Cymru / Wales @bsbicymru.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

For #wildflowerhour this week, they’re not #treeflowers but flowers that are nonetheless reliant on a tree! Toothwort / Deintlys (Lathraea squamaria), parasitic on the roots of the amazing old native black poplar in the car park by the River Severn in Newtown, Powys.

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BSBI Cymru / Wales @bsbicymru.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Two cracking crucifers from different ends of Wales this week - Yellow whitlowgrass / Llysiau‘r-bystwn melyn (Draba aizoides) going to seed on Gower yesterday, and Alpine pennycress / Codywasg y mwynfeydd (Noccaea caerulescens) flowering in Gwydir Forest earlier in the week.

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BSBI Cymru / Wales @bsbicymru.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Stunning #woodlandplants from the limestone woods in Denbighshire - yellow star-of-Bethlehem (Gagea lutea), wild daffodil (Narcissus pseudonarcissus) and early dog-violet (Viola reichenbachiana) #wildflowerhour

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BSBI Cymru / Wales @bsbicymru.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Two black-blotchy-leaved #woodlandplants together, Arum maculatum (lords-and-ladies etc) & Orchis mascula (early-purple orchids). #wildflowerhour

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Flo Fflach @flofflach.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Cardamine pratensis: there are others out elsewhere, but the first at home. A many named plant. What do you call it? Sir Benfro Pembrokeshire Cymru #widflowers #springflowers @bsbibotany.bsky.social @plantlifeuk.bsky.social @bsbicymru.bsky.social @bsbiengland.bsky.social @bsbiscotland.bsky.social

looking down on a single plant of Cardamine pratensis, 2 open flowers in mauve pink, one nearly open and 3 buds just visible

Cymraeg: Bara a llaeth y gog, Bara can a llaeth, Bara can, Blodau’r waun, Blodau'r Cegid Bychain, Blodau'r Gethlydd, Blodau'r Gog, Blodau'r Gwcw, Blodeuyn y Gog, blodyn bara llaeth , Blodyn Llaeth, Blodyn Llefrith, Blodyn Llo Bach, Blodyn y dŵr, Blodyn y Gog, Blodyn y gwcw, Esgidiau a Hosanau'r Gog, Ffedog y Forwyn, Hosan, Hydwf y Waun, Hydyf, Llaethferch, Mantel Mair, Pais y ladi,Y laethferch,
Breton: Belar prad, beler prad
Cornish: lethores, ethvyrgh

Adder’s meat, apple pie, bird eye, bog spinks, bonny bird eye, bread & milk, bitter cress, Canterbury bells, carsons, coco plant, cuckoo bread, cuckoo flower, cuckoo pint, cuckoo pintle, cuckoo’s shoes & stockings, cuckoo spice, cuckoo spit, fairy flower, gillyflower, gookoo burttons, gookoo flower, headaches, heid-wark, lady slip, lady flock, lady’s glove, lady’s mantle, lady’s milk-sile, lady’s pride, Lady's smock, lamb lakins, laylocks, lonesome lady, Lucy locket, Ma, may blob, may flower, meadow, meadow bitter-cress, meadow cress, meadow flower, meadow kerses, meadow pink, milk girl, milkies, milkmaids, moll blobs, my lady’s smock, naked ladies, nightingale flower, our lady’s smock, paigle, pick folly, pigeon's eye, pig’s eyes, pink, shoes and stockings, smell smock, smick smock, spink, swamp’s companion, water cuckoo, water lily

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BSBI Cymru / Wales @bsbicymru.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Mwsglys heddiw / Moschatel today #Adoxa moschatellina #gwanwyn

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BSBI Cymru / Wales @bsbicymru.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

#WoodAnemone this week - its Welsh name is Blodyn y Gwynt (the flower of the wind), but another old local name is Bara Caws (cheese bread!) #wildflowerhour

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BSBI Cymru / Wales @bsbicymru.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Yn galw ar fotanegwyr sy'n siarad cymraeg! Mae dau gyhoeddiad BSBI bellach ar gael yn y Gymraeg. Diolch i Raglen #RhwydweithiauNatur Llywodraeth Cymru, a ddarperir gan y Gronfa Dreftadaeth. Felly rydych chi eisiau adnabod eich planhigion Cod Ymddygiad BSBI Lawrlwythwch nhw yma bsbi.org/cymru

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BSBI Cymru / Wales @bsbicymru.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Calling Welsh-speaking botanists! Two BSBI publications are now available in Welsh, thanks to funding from the #NatureNetworks Programme, delivered by the Heritage Fund, on behalf of the Welsh Government: So You Want to Know Your Plants BSBI Code of Conduct Download them here bsbi.org/cymru

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BSBI Cymru / Wales @bsbicymru.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Blue anemone #GardenEscapes on the verge just outside the village. Not 100% sure yet if Anemone blanda or A apennina (opinions welcome!) - leaves are sparsely hairy underneath so leaning towards A apennina. #wildflowerhour

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BSBI Cymru / Wales @bsbicymru.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Tormaen porffor (Saxifraga oppositifolia) yng Nghwm Idwal heddiw. Hyfryd! / beautiful Purple saxifrage in Cwm Idwal today. #Eryri #Saxifraga

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Flo Fflach @flofflach.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Ranunculus ficaria ~ Llygad Ebrill ~ lesser celandine/cheesecups, also eithin ~ gorse (the scent drifting in warmth) & briallu # primrose, Teifi Marshes #YellowFlowers #wildflowerhour #cymru #wales @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @wtsww.bsky.social @bsbicymru.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

a spead of lesser celeandone, starry yellow flowers

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mattrjones.bsky.social @mattrjones.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Beyond chuffed to finally meet the gorgeous Yellow Whitlowgrass (Draba aizoides) on the Gower today 😍 These castle ruins and the nearby cliffs are the only known sites in Britain for this stunner.

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BSBI Cymru / Wales @bsbicymru.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

I love Powys in the springtime. Celandine, coltsfoot, opposite-leaved golden saxifrage, primrose #yellowflowers / Dwi'n caru Powys yn y gwanwyn. Llygad Ebrill, Carn yr ebol, Eglyn cyferbynddail, Briallu #blodaumelyn #wildflowerhour

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BSBI Cymru / Wales @bsbicymru.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Lluglys gludiog (Silene viscaria) yn haul y gwanwyn heddiw /Sticky catchfly (Silene viscaria) flowering in the early spring sun today.

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BSBI Cymru / Wales @bsbicymru.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Rustyback fern / Duegredynen gefngoch (Asplenium ceterach) on limestone outcrops cleared of dense thorn, ash regen etc. by NRW & Llanymynech golf club. Nice to see, as no records here for 30+ years - would’ve been quite painful/scratchy to get to them in recent years!

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Flo Fflach @flofflach.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

spring & winter ~ gwanwyn a gaeaf dant y ci ~ dazzle flower (dant y llew ~ dandelion) Sir Benfro Pembrokeshire #tywydd #weather #wildflowers #loveukweather @plantlifeuk.bsky.social @bsbicymru.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

3 dandelion flowers tucked into grass and frost

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Tristan Norton @trisnorton.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Well, what a delight! Early Sand-grass Mibora minima in fine fettle on the dunes at Aberffraw, Ynys Môn today. Last saw this on the beach at Juno Beach, Normandy. Maxing out at c.1cm tall, it's almost invisible. @bsbibotany.bsky.social @bsbicymru.bsky.social

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Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland (BSBI) @bsbibotany.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

We're hiring! Could you help create a resilient future for the Botanical Society, working across our teams to support staff and volunteers? Apply to become our first ever Administration Officer: bsbi.org/vacancies/ad... Not applying yourself? Then please help us spread the word! Deadline: 2nd March

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Flo Fflach @flofflach.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Lamium purpureum ~ marddanhadlen goch ~ red dead nettle #SirBenfro #Pembrokeshire counted in #NewYearPlantHunt the other day. Last night -6.3°C on grass tips -1.5°c in screen a couple of metres from the little beauty #frost #wildplants #wildflowers @bsbicymru.bsky.social @plantlifeuk.bsky.social

small plant with roundish leaves and tiny pink red flower on top covered in ice crystals

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BSBI Cymru / Wales @bsbicymru.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Not a list of blooming plants, but a bloomin’ good fern for my #NewYearPlantHunt - a quick car-journey stop in Monmouthshire to see some lobed maidenhair spleenwort (Asplenium trichomanes subsp. pachyrachis / A csikii).

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BSBI Cymru / Wales @bsbicymru.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

This little Christmas cracker was found by the BSBI Meirionnydd Naturalists’ Group during their Christmas walk on Harlech dunes last Friday - Variegated Horsetail / Marchrawn Amrywiol (Equisetum variegatum)

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BSBI Cymru / Wales @bsbicymru.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Winter botany in Eryri, with marsh #clubmoss #Lycopodiella inundata at one of its few sites in Wales / Botaneg gaeaf yn #Eryri, #Cnwpfwsogl y gors (Lycopodiella inundata). Mae hyn yn tyfu mewn ychydig o leoedd yng Nghymru.

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BSBI Cymru / Wales @bsbicymru.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Lliwiau’r enfys ar ddeilen mieri / Colours of the rainbow on a bramble leaf. 🌈🍃

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Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland (BSBI) @bsbibotany.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Window now open to apply for a BSBI grant for 2025! We offer grants for short #WildFlowerID courses (our online course Identiplant & courses from external providers), for Plant Study & Research. Our Grants page also lists other grants that we think might be of interest to botanists: bsbi.org/grants

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Sam Thomas @sjthomasbotany.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Nice to finally see Erigeron bonariensis in the UK and complete my Erigeron composite. Thanks to @trisnorton.bsky.social for showing me the plants

Composite image of four species of Erigeron (fleabane) showing the capitula and leaf edge for each species

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