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Kat Newbert @ghostofdatura.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Bupleurum tenuissimum, slender hares ear growing in profusion in the lawn of my holiday villa.

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Kat Newbert @ghostofdatura.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Dianthus carthusianorum, Carthusian pink on the edge of an olive grove in Tuscany.

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Kat Newbert @ghostofdatura.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

On holiday in Tuscany and Erigeron bonariensis is abundant on the road verges, they have wine glass shaped inflorescences (very fitting for the region) and purple tipped phyllaries. #wildflowerhour

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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Possibly my favourite plant, perhaps chiefly when it poses on lock gates and beside winding gear etc: Beggarticks Bidens frondosa along the Kennet & Avon canal at Devizes today

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Kat Newbert @ghostofdatura.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

An the weirdest thing I found today was Bolboschoenus maritimus with extremely long inflorescences. Anyone know why its growing like this? #wildflowerhour

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Kat Newbert @ghostofdatura.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Euphorbia stricta has wonderful warty seeds. #wildflowerhour

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Kat Newbert @ghostofdatura.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Moving office locations means new areas to nose around at lunchtime. I found a population of Herniaria glabra which is a new vice county record.

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Kat Newbert @ghostofdatura.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Things are still holding on in the drought this Persicaria mitis was flowering yesterday.

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Kat Newbert @ghostofdatura.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

It's definitely been a week of seeing new plants. @1davidelston.bsky.social, @bramblebotanist.bsky.social and i went wading around looking for Calamagrostis scotica. And we found lots! Superficially is much darker than C. stricta.

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Kat Newbert @ghostofdatura.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Up in Cathness for the @bsbibotany.bsky.social recording week. Out today to look for Carex x grantii the hybrid between Carex recta abandoned Carex aquatilis. Here is a lovely family portrait.

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Kat Newbert @ghostofdatura.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Lotus subbiflorus looking splendid in the afternoon sun down in Dorset today.

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Kat Newbert @ghostofdatura.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Anyone in Dorset/Hampshire have a good spot to find Cicendia filiformis?

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Kat Newbert @ghostofdatura.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Been a incredibly busy week doing botanical surveys all around the country, here are a few highlights. 1. Diapensia lapponica, 2. Convallaria majalis, 3. Logfia minima, 4. veronica spicata, 5. Allium sphaerocephalon

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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

No #LawnFlowers from me, just grassed areas - like this area with a beautiful population of Bath Asparagus; the bees love it! #WildflowerHour

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Kat Newbert @ghostofdatura.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

You know your sedgery is getting out of control when Carex depauperata self sets everywhere and starts becoming a garden weed! #wildflowerhour not sure it counts as #LawnFlowers though?

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Kat Newbert @ghostofdatura.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

For #Wildflowerhour #OrchidChallenge this week, here is a photo of Ophrys sphegodes found earlier this month in Wiltshire, last seen in the county in 1989!

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Kat Newbert @ghostofdatura.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

A nice habitat shot of Diapensia lapponica. @bramblebotanist.bsky.social and I managed to dodge the rain today to find this beauty.

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Kat Newbert @ghostofdatura.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

A long hike up a Scottish mountain with a special reward at the summit, Diapensia lapponica!

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Kat Newbert @ghostofdatura.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Finally feeling better after having a horrible cold. So took myself off to Dawlish Warren in the sunshine to see romulea columnae, Sand crocus, and what a beauty it is! I also bumped into @naturelark.bsky.social, was so lovely to meet you.

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Kat Newbert @ghostofdatura.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

A suprising find today, Asarina procumbens (trailing snapdragon) growing out of a drain in an old greenhouse.

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Kat Newbert @ghostofdatura.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

@notfrangible.bsky.social messaged this morning to say she found Urtica membranacea. So off i went to confirm, what a stunner and a new county record to boot! Urban botany at its best.

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Kat Newbert @ghostofdatura.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Taking @bramblebotanist.bsky.social to see Helleborus viridis flowering between showers in Wiltshire today. #wildflowerhour

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Kat Newbert @ghostofdatura.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

My final @bsbibotany.bsky.social new year plant hunt was in Wiltshire with a very respectable 50 species in flower. Highlights were Senecio viscosus and Veronica agrestis and of course excellent company #Wiltsbotsoc

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Kat Newbert @ghostofdatura.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Yesterday I undertook my first of three new year plant hunts. Considering it was a mainly rural walk I recorded 28 plants in flower. This included Lamium hybridum (a new hectad record), Stachys arvensis and hundreds of plants of Spergula arvensis (in bud but sadly not in flower).

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Kat Newbert @ghostofdatura.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Asplenium trichomanes subsp. pachyrachis is the rarest subspecies of maidenhair spleenwort found growing out of damp limestone with high humidity levels. Identified by its lobed leaves from which it gets its English name, lobed maidenhair spleenwort. This one was tucked away in the Wye Valley.

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Kat Newbert @ghostofdatura.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Surveying near the river Itchen in Hampshire today and pretty convinced this is Urtica dioica subsp. subinermis with only a few stinging hairs. @jo-the-botanist.bsky.social what do you think?

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Kat Newbert @ghostofdatura.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Back from the fantastic @bsbibotany.bsky.social Mentha workshop run by @ambroisebaker.bsky.social. I learnt a lot, mints can be so variable. On the field meeting we found a number of different species. First photo is M. x gracilis, second is M. x smithiana and third is M. x verticillata.

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Kat Newbert @ghostofdatura.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Up in Yorkshire at the moment for the @bsbibotany.bsky.social Mentha workshop. Quick walk before dinner and found a few interesting things including Bromus inermis ssp. inermis which is the more common of the two subspecies.

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Kat Newbert @ghostofdatura.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

After several days at a music festival having my ears blasted, I thought it would be good to balance out with some botanising. A trip down to the Dorset heaths and I finally found Dorset heath Erica ciliaris and it's hybrid with Erica tetralix = Erica x watsonii in the middle of the family photo.

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Kat Newbert @ghostofdatura.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Having a fantastic week at the @bsbibotany.bsky.social summer meeting. Finding a fantastic range of sedges and grasses. Highlight of my week is finding Carex x boenninghausiana, the hybrid between remota and paniculata. Hierochloe odorata, Calamagrostis stricta and it's hybrid C. x gracilescens.

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Kat Newbert @ghostofdatura.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

On route to the @bsbibotany.bsky.social annual summer meeting in Melrose, stopping off in Yorkshire to see some hawkweeds. Here is Ribbleshead hawkweed Hieracium caesitium with its very delicately blotched leaves.

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Kat Newbert @ghostofdatura.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Sweet galingale, Cyperus longus found on a recent botanical survey.

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Kat Newbert @ghostofdatura.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Found this wonderful purple form of Ononis spinosa whilst botanising near the Severn estuary. Ive never seen it in another colour form before.

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Kat Newbert @ghostofdatura.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

So to balance out the orchid post earlier, here is a much better sedge find. Carex davalliana, one of the new sedges i saw this weekend. This sedge is sadly extinct in the UK but still found across much of Europe in calcareous flushes.

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Kat Newbert @ghostofdatura.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

@bramblebotanist.bsky.social and I have had a fantastic day exploring alpine flora in the French alps. We found Gymnadenia rhellicani, a black vanilla orchid just opening.

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Kat Newbert @ghostofdatura.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Melampyrum nemorosum, wood cow wheat is abundant on the road verges in this area of france. A favourite of the trip so far.

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Kat Newbert @ghostofdatura.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Fantastic #BSBIRubusWeekend2025 led by @bramblebotanist.bsky.social we saw lots of Norfolk specialities including a new Rubus species for the UK - Rubus paraplicatus one of the suberecti group.

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Alex Prendergast @bramblebotanist.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Set a dozen batologists free in Broadland & rightly anticipate a few interesting bramble records.. not a new-to-GB waterlily. Nymphaea candida has small flowers with erect petals, filaments wider than anthers & concave stigmatic disc. Leaves with anastomosing veins at edges. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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Kat Newbert @ghostofdatura.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Seems like a good year for Orobanche, especially yellow forms.

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Ben @benjyhere.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

4 Gold-tailed Melitta males roosting in the musk mallow this evening. There were 5 or 6 about today so the others must be lurking nearby. #SolitaryBees

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Kat Newbert @ghostofdatura.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

A few of us mad Wilts Bot Soc folks met up in the heat wave this morning. But we were rewarded with finding these monsters. Orobanche elatior forma citrina.

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Tristan Norton @trisnorton.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Forked Catchfly Silene dichotoma has reappeared in a local arable margin after a lapse of two years. Central Hampshire. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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Kat Newbert @ghostofdatura.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Ornithogalum pyrenaicum, bath asparagus is having a fantastic year. The hedgerows around me are full with this beauty.

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Kat Newbert @ghostofdatura.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

The walls around Bradford-on-Avon are looking fantastic with Hieracium argillaceum in full flower.

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Kat Newbert @ghostofdatura.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Fellow botanists can I ask for thoughts on this Galium. I've keyed it out as Galium constrictum but it's far from it's current known range. Downwards pointing stem hairs, hairs on the leaves pointing forward. Bright yellow green look to it and pink in bud.

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Kat Newbert @ghostofdatura.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

A new plant for me today, and even better a new sedge! Carex muricata subsp. muricata in fantastic abundance.

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Kat Newbert @ghostofdatura.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

So I finally joined Bluesky. I'm just back from an amazing Wiltshire flora group residential trip to the Suffolk/Norfolk borders. Some amazing plants, but Aristolochia hirta, breckland birthwort was the most out there plant we saw. Thanks @bramblebotanist.bsky.social for showing us around.

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