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Camilla Lauren-Maatta @camillalm.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Not one #favouriteplant for #wildflowerhour but two, Autumn Scilla and Autumn Lady's-tresses, from our holiday in south Devon this week

Prospero autumnale, previously Scilla autumnalis, with a raceme of lilac flowers, each with 6 tepals

Spiranthes spiralis, a tiny white orchid, with spirally arranged flowers

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Camilla Lauren-Maatta @camillalm.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The Narrow-leaved Ragwort Senecio inaequidens, an alien species originally from South Africa, very abundant on wasteland above sand dunes at South Gare, Teesside #wildflowerhour

Bushy plant with linear fleshy leaves and yellow daisy-like flowers

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Camilla Lauren-Maatta @camillalm.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Grass-of-Parnassus Parnassia palustris growing on machair grassland, Ardnamurchan #wildflowerhour #stillflowering

White five-petalled delicate flower with distinctive veins

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Arto Maatta @artom.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Holiday moth trap in Ardnamurchan last night. 27 sp, highlights included Purple Bar, Oblique Carpet, Pretty Pinion, Peach Blossom & also 3 Antler Moth, 3 Garden Tiger, 2 True Lover’s Knot and Gothic. #TeamMoth

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Camilla Lauren-Maatta @camillalm.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Yellow Saxifrage Saxifraga aizoides on the slopes of Ben Vorlich, Scottish Highlands #wildflowerhour

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Camilla Lauren-Maatta @camillalm.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Our local churchyard is regularly mowed and sometimes sprayed, but the Hedge Mustard, Wood Avens and Bush Vetch have found a sanctuary spot #Wildflowerhour #ChurchyardFlowers

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Camilla Lauren-Maatta @camillalm.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

A low-growing and dainty Yarrow, Achillea millefolium, growing on limestone in Grassington, Yorkshire Dales #WildflowerHour

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Camilla Lauren-Maatta @camillalm.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Northern Marsh Orchid in flower, but only leaves of Dark Red Helleborine for #OrchidChallenge #Wildflowerhour

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Camilla Lauren-Maatta @camillalm.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Durham #WildFlowerShow from our morning dog walk with Crosswort and Germander Speedwell for #Wildflowerhour

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Arto Maatta @artom.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Dog’s Mercury in an ancient woodland in Durham. The name comes from the superficial resemblance of this poisonous plant to the edible Good King Henry (English Mercury). We once had a dog who liked to chew them with following predictable tummy problems 🤢. #WildflowerHour #StoryPlants

Dog’s Mercury photographed in strong sunlight.

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Camilla Lauren-Maatta @camillalm.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

According to Nordic folklore, fairies used Cowslip flowers as cups during parties. Washing your face with dew from a Cowslip at Midsummer Eve would also keep you young and beautiful during the following year #WildflowerHour #StoryPlants

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Camilla Lauren-Maatta @camillalm.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Spring is here! Cherry Plum Prunus cerasifera just coming into flower at Teesside #wildflowerhour

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Camilla Lauren-Maatta @camillalm.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Lovely flowerheads of Greater Burnet and Devil's-bit Scabious in Northumberland for #wildflowerhour

Greater Burnet Sanguisorba officinalis (dark red with oval flowerhead)

Devil's-bit Scabious Succisa pratensis (purple with round flowerhead)

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Camilla Lauren-Maatta @camillalm.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Brookweed Samolus valerandi, a semi-aquatic plant with globose fruits, growing next to the steps leading down to the beach at Durham coast #wildflowerhour

Small white flowers and globular fruits, basal rosette of leaves and alternating stem leaves.

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Camilla Lauren-Maatta @camillalm.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Norfolk dunes #ByTheSea covered by Sheep's-bit, Common Centaury, Seaholly and Hare's-foot Clover #WildflowerHour

Light-blue Sheeps-bit flowerhead, Jasione montana

Pink Common Centaury Centauria erythraea

Seaholly Eryngium maritimum is spiky and thistle-like

Hare's-foot Clover with softly hairy oval flowerheads

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Camilla Lauren-Maatta @camillalm.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

This Slow Worm (found near Loch Lomond) had just lost its tail (autotomy), probably trying to escape from a predator. The tail was still wriggling #UKwildlife #reptiles

A copper-coloured reptile (Slow Worm) with a recently detached tail.

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Camilla Lauren-Maatta @camillalm.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

A Skullcap Scutellaria galericulata captured by Loch Lomond along the West Highland Way route #wildflowerhour #DeadnettleFamily

Blue-violet Skullcap: two-lipped softly hairy flowers with hooded upper lip and shallowly four-lobed lower lip and opposite lanceolate leaves.

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Camilla Lauren-Maatta @camillalm.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Just finished walking the West Highland Way with @artom.bsky.social. Here are some 'Scottish Bluebells' for the #HarebellChallenge #Wildflowerhour

Harebells with mountains and a West Highland Way signpost in the background.

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NEYEDC @teamneyedc.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Amongst all the wonderful wildlife recorded during our bioblitz at Kilnsey Park Estate over the weekend, we were lucky enough to see the stunning Lady's Slipper Orchid in flower on Kilnsey Flushes. What a beauty! #wildflowerhour #OrchidChallenge

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Camilla Lauren-Maatta @camillalm.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

A slightly sad looking Common Spotted Orchid (due to the drought) on limestone grassland with Common Rock-rose, Salad Burnet, and Burnet Rose #wildflowerhour #OrchidChallenge

Common Spotted Orchid Dactylorhiza fuchsii, opening up from bud

Common Rock-rose Helianthemum nummularium

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Camilla Lauren-Maatta @camillalm.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

#WildFlowerShow of Kidney and Horseshoe Vetch and Common Milkwort by Durham Coast for #wildflowerhour

Magnesian limestone grassland with two yellow vetches, Hippocrepis comosa and Anthyllis vulneraria, and blue milkwort Polygala vulgaris.

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Camilla Lauren-Maatta @camillalm.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Spring Gentian, pink and white Birds-eye Primrose and Teesdale Violet from our walk in Teesdale last Sunday, belatedly for #wildflowerhour

Bright blue Spring Gentian, Gentiana verna

Pink Birds-eye Primrose Primula farinosa

White form of Bird's-eye Primrose Primula farinosa

Teesdale Violet Viola rupestris with scoop shaped leaves and short hairs on the leaf stalk

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Camilla Lauren-Maatta @camillalm.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Worryingly dry on the blanket bog in Yorkshire Dales, but I spotted a few Cloudberry plants in flower on my run last weekend #wildflowerhour

A small white Cloudberry flower Rubus chamaemorus

The palmate solitary leaf of a Cloudberry plant

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Donna Rainey @donnarainey4.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Mountain everlasting. A beautiful little bouquet. #wildflowerhour

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Arto Maatta @artom.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Wild Garlic, Allium ursinum, at Bishop Auckland Castle today #WildflowerHour

White flowers and green leaves of Wild Garlick agsinst black background.

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Camilla Lauren-Maatta @camillalm.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Tussocky Hare's-tail Cottongrass Eriophorum vaginatum with inflated leafsheaths and a single spike growing on blanket bog in North York Moors #HighUpPlants #wildflowerhour

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Camilla Lauren-Maatta @camillalm.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Mats of moisture-loving #tinyplants Opposite-leaved Golden Saxifrage in deciduous woodland by Tunstall reservoir, County Durham for #wildflowerhour

Light green Opposite-leaved Golden Saxifrage Chrysosplenium oppositifolium

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Rachel P 🌿 @rach0penno.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

False Oxlip (Primula veris x vulgaris), a hybrid of cowslip and primrose (left) and Common Primrose (Primula vulgaris) in our local, ancient woodland for #WildflowerHour #WoodlandPlants

A small patch of dark green basal leaves and small yellow primrose-like flowers on top of tall stems. The plants are growing on the woodland floor with trees in the background of the picture.

A patch of pale yellow primrose flowers on a woodland bank that's recently been subject to tree felling, letting more light in and encouraging growth of plants on the woodland floor.

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Camilla Lauren-Maatta @camillalm.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Greater Stitchwort and a few English Bluebells just coming into flower, North Yorkshire #woodlandplants #wildflowerhour

Greater Stitchwort Rabelera (Stellaria) holostea

English Bluebell Hyacinthoides non-scripta

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Camilla Lauren-Maatta @camillalm.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Naturalised Winter Aconite Eranthis hyemalis in flower on the 30th December #wildflowerhour

Yellow Winter Aconite (Buttercup family)

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Elisa Pääkkö @elisapaakko.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Tänään julkaistu uusi Luontoon.fi kokoaa jatkossa kaikki Suomen ulkoilukohteet ja reitit samaan paikkaan. Retkeilyreittien lisäksi palvelussa on reittejä mm. pyöräilyyn, melontaan ja hiihtämiseen. Mukana ovat valtion, kuntien ja yhdistysten ylläpitämät retkeilypalvelut.

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Wild Lakeland @wildlakeland.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Hello everyone! just finding my feet with how this all works! Give me a repost to help find friends from other platforms! ☺️

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Camilla Lauren-Maatta @camillalm.bsky.social · 27/10/2024

Yellow-wort and Carline Thistle still in flower on Magnesian Limestone grassland, County Durham #wildflowerhour

Yellow-wort Blackstonia perfoliata, flowers closed due to low light levels

Carline thistle Carlina vulgaris with golden brown flower heads

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Camilla Lauren-Maatta @camillalm.bsky.social · 13/10/2024

A white-flowered Common Stork's-bill Erodium cicutarium growing on coastal dunes #wildflowerhour

Common Stork's-bill with white petals and pale yellow stigma

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Camilla Lauren-Maatta @camillalm.bsky.social · 22/09/2024

Hogweed Heracleum sphondylium, Hemp-agrimony Eupatorium cannabinum and Wild Carrot Daucus carrota #seedheads #wildflowerhour

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Camilla Lauren-Maatta @camillalm.bsky.social · 25/08/2024

Common Fleabane, Greater Knapweed and Perennial Sow-thistle brightening up the day at Durham coast #DaisyFamily #Wildflowerhour

Pulicaria dysenterica with dark yellow disc florets and lighter yellow ray florets

Greater Knapweed Centaurea scabiosa with long outer ray florets

Perennial Sow-thistle Sonchus arvensis with glandular hair on the involucral bracts

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Camilla Lauren-Maatta @camillalm.bsky.social · 18/08/2024

Not really a native wildflower but an introduced species sown by a farmer. Lacy Phacelia Phacelia tanacetifolia is however very popular with #PollinatorPals #wildflowerhours

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Camilla Lauren-Maatta @camillalm.bsky.social · 11/08/2024

Most likely Common Sea-lavender Limonium vulgare (creamy yellow anthers) and Rock Sea-lavender Limonium binervosum. I should have checked leaf veination better in the field during our Norfolk holiday #wildflowerhour

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Camilla Lauren-Maatta @camillalm.bsky.social · 28/07/2024

Autumn Gentian Gentianella amarella and Common Centaury Centaurium erythraea growing side by side at Wingate Quarry Nature Reserve, Durham #wildflowerhour

Autumn Gentian, blueish purple corolla with a round fringe of white hair

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Camilla Lauren-Maatta @camillalm.bsky.social · 09/06/2024

Greater Butterfly-orchid Platanthera chloranta with converging pollinaria (shaped like an upside down V), County Durham #wildflowerhour

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Camilla Lauren-Maatta @camillalm.bsky.social · 26/05/2024

Fly Orchid, Lesser Butterfly Orchid, Globeflower and lots of Common Butterwort from our day trip to Cumbria😊 #wildflowerhour

Lesser Butterfly Orchid Planthatera bifolia

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Camilla Lauren-Maatta @camillalm.bsky.social · 19/05/2024

Mermaid's purses found at Crimdon beach, County Durham, most likely Small-spotted Catshark Scyliorhinus canicula

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Camilla Lauren-Maatta @camillalm.bsky.social · 12/05/2024

Spring Sandwort Sabulina verna in Teesdale. A species that accumulates and tolerates heavy metals and belongs to the #pinkfamily #wildflowerhour

Spring Sandwort has white flowers with 5 petals and red anthers (not so obvious in this photo)

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Camilla Lauren-Maatta @camillalm.bsky.social · 12/05/2024

Teesdale specialities and other upland flora from the outing with Durham Botany Group #wildflowerhour

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Camilla Lauren-Maatta @camillalm.bsky.social · 28/04/2024

A yellow theme to our evening dog walk at Blackhall Rocks, County Durham, with Cowslip and Gorse, smelling strongly of coconut-scented nectar #wildflowerhour

Gorse Ulex europeaus growing by coast of northeast England

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Camilla Lauren-Maatta @camillalm.bsky.social · 14/04/2024

One of my favourite woodland plants, Moschatel Adoxa moschatellina, spotted on our walk in Dovedale #wildflowerhour

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Camilla Lauren-Maatta @camillalm.bsky.social · 10/04/2024

Whooper Swans and Bean Geese stopping to feed at Söderfjärden, near Vasa, Finland #Birds

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