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Jenny Harris @jnnyharris.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Making a colourful early autumn display at Far Ings Nature Reserve, a ragwort with narrow leaves. Narrow-leaved Ragwort (Senecio inaequidens) perhaps? #wildflowerID #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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Jenny Harris @jnnyharris.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This small #cabbagefamily plant was growing beside a path through reed beds alongside the Humber Estuary. I think it may be Marsh Yellow-cress (Rorippa palustris) #wildflowerhour #wildflowerID @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Leaf rosette of lobed leaves with terminal lobe and paired side lobes.

Yellow flowers with 4 petals and 4 sepals almost equal in length. Swollen, slightly curved pods.

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Jenny Harris @jnnyharris.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Until this week I thought all gorse was Gorse. Not so! This, adorning a Cornish cliff top, must be Western Gorse (Ulex gallii)? #wildflowerID #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

A deeply indented coastline with the cliff top in the foreground almost completely covered with low growing mounds of dark green foliage with bright yellow flowers.

A spiny dark green shrub generously scattered with clusters of bright yellow-gold flowers. Behind, out of focus, are more of the same against a backdrop of blue green sea with rows of white-topped Atlantic waves rolling in.

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Jenny Harris @jnnyharris.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

A new one to me, here’s Wild Madder (Rubia peregrina) for #wildflowerhour, a member of the bedstraw family. Spot the 4-angled stems, whorled leaves, curved prickles and black berries. Growing on the wild and windy Cornish cliff top. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Wild Madder, its stiff stems and thick shiny green leaves scrambling through heather.

Close-up of 4-angled stems bearing whorls of leaves edged with curved prickles and Matt green berries, ripening to shiny black.

A view of a North Cornwall cliff top with the coast path snaking into the distance. Sloping ground, carpeted with low-growing plants, falls away to cliffs on the left and the swirling waves below. In the distance a restored pumping station stands tall, a reminder of this area’s tin-mining past.

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Jenny Harris @jnnyharris.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

For the #wildflowerhour #favouriteplant challenge I give you Traveller’s-joy (Clematis vitalba). AKA Old Man’s Beard. Pictured here in late afternoon sunshine in the #hedgerow of a North #Cornwall golf course and giving this traveller joy! @bsbibotany.bsky.social

The climbing plant Traveller’s-joy (Clematis vitalba) growing abundantly in a hedgerow, lit up by the golden light from the September sun, now low in the sky.

A cluster of Traveller’s-joy seedheads bearing twisted silvery silken plumes.

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Jenny Harris @jnnyharris.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

A day late for #wildflowerhour, Ivy-leaved Toadflax (Cymbalaria muralis) and Mexican Fleabane (Erigeron karvinskianus) growing as #wallplants at Bodiam Castle yesterday. Would it be wrong to suggest the castle walls are the real stars here? 🏰 🌱 @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbi.bsky.social

Ivy-leaved Toadflax. Purple flowers with white and egg-yellow centres. Purple stems bear green leaves shaped rather like mini ivy leaves.

A castle, its impenetrable stone walls surrounded by and reflected in its moat, resplendent under blue skies with puffy white clouds.

The battlements of a castle, plants clinging wherever they can find a foothold in the walls.

Mexican Fleabane. Delicate white daisy-like flowers, pink when in bud, amid a mass of scrambling fine stems, giving vibes of a plant soldiering on bravely at the end of a long hot summer.

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Jenny Harris @jnnyharris.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Tansy (Tanacetum vulgare) at @nottswildlife.bsky.social Attenborough Nature Reserve last week. Intensely golden in the late afternoon sun, at the end of a walk and natter with an old friend. #DaisyFamily #wildflowerhour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Tansy flower head, like a cluster of gold buttons, with fern-like leaves. Pictured here against a wooden fence. Not the best specimen, but the only one not waving around in the breeze!

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Jenny Harris @jnnyharris.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

There for the butterflies (lots and lots of them!) but couldn’t ignore Corn Mint (Mentha arvensis) in Grafton Wood, Worcestershire. With visiting bug, I think Red-spotted Plant Bug (Deraeocoris ruber). #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social

Shiny rusty red bug on lilac Corn Mint flowers.

Corn Mint flowering at the edge of a woodland ride.

Whorl of lilac Corn Mint flowers in the leaf axils of a pair of hairy leaves.

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Jenny Harris @jnnyharris.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I’ve never noticed Red Bartsia (Odontites vernus) before. Well worth a closer look. At a newly-established nature reserve on the outskirts of Bath. #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

One-sided spike of pink flowers with hooded upper lip and 3-lobed lower lip, enclosing a deep magenta centre. A second spike faces away, out-of-focus against a blurred background of grasses.

Close-up view of the flower shown in the previous image.

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Jenny Harris @jnnyharris.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I found a mystery plant at the edge of the Kennet & Avon Canal, near Bath. Could it be Apple Mint (M. x villosa)? Perhaps escaped from one of the pretty rooftop container gardens on a narrowboat moored nearby? #wildflowerhour #wildflowerID @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Lush vegetation at the edge of a canal. Most obvious is a plant with tall mauve whorled flower spikes.

Close-up of the square stems and oval, pointed, toothed leaves.

Whorls of pale mauve flowers, forming a terminal spike, pictured against a background of jumbled canal-side vegetation.

Close-up of the pale mauve flowers, showing hairy toothed calyces and four stamens not projecting.

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Jenny Harris @jnnyharris.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Carline Thistle (Carlina vulgaris) ones, twos, threes and fours, in shades of gold and aubergine. At a parched grassland Cotswold nature reserve this week. Not exactly #wetlandplants. #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

A cluster of four Carline Thistle flower heads.

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Jenny Harris @jnnyharris.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Unperturbed by the drought, here is Wall Lettuce (Mycelis muralis). Easily overlooked but there is beauty in the detail. #StillFlowering #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social #pavementplants #urbanplants

Wall Lettuce, pictured in late afternoon sunshine, growing alongside Wild Strawberry in the pavement in front of a stone wall. Dry fallen leaves around the base of the plants hint at the recent hot, dry weather.

Flower head composed of 5 yellow florets.

The flower head, viewed from the side has two distinct rows of bracts: the inner bracts linear and tinged red, the outer bracts short.

The seed head with three black short-beaked seeds remaining, each with a plume of white hairs.

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Jenny Harris @jnnyharris.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Betony, Betony (Betonica officinalis). So good I’ve posted it twice. Last week and this. Near Hathersage, Derbyshire #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

A sloping meadow coloured purple with hundreds of Betony flower spikes amid a frothy haze of grasses

Closer view of two individual Betony flower spikes

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Jenny Harris @jnnyharris.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

A Tale of Two Thistles. Creeping Thistle (Cirsium arvense) and Spear Thistle (Cirsium vulgare). Near Hathersage, Derbyshire #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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Jenny Harris @jnnyharris.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I went back and looked closer at my yellow Dandelion look-alike. Now with photos of the bracts, stem and leaves. They were coping with the heat better than me 🫠 . Does this help? #wildflowerhour #wildflowerID

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Jenny Harris @jnnyharris.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

A friend showed me a new walk in the Hope Valley. Weaving up and down through open meadows full of butterflies and dark woods patrolled by wood ants. The standout flowers were Betony and Harebell, plus a branched yellow daisy I don’t yet know. Perhaps a hawk’s-beard? #wildflowerhour #wildflowerID

Betony (Betonica officinalis) growing in the verge of a narrow lane

A close-up view of the reddish-purple flowers of Betony

A patch of Harebell (Campanula rotundifolia) in a meadow. Beyond, a path through the grass leads down to a wooded stream

A roadside verge with the reddish-purple flowers of Betony and yellow daisies, perhaps a hawk’s-beard?

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Jenny Harris @jnnyharris.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Skullcap (Scutellaria galericulata) growing in the dam wall of a disused millpond. Two-lipped untoothed calyx with a flange or scale at the back of the upper lip. Though I can’t say that was uppermost in my mind as I hung over the edge trying not to drop my phone in the water 😁 #wildflowerhour

The blue flowers, square stems and pointed leaves of Skullcap caught in a shaft of light against a dark watery background

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Jenny Harris @jnnyharris.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

For the #InvasivePlants challenge, a monster-sized specimen of the monster that is Himalayan Balsam (Impatiens glandulifera). Growing in the Rivelin Valley amongst remnants of Sheffield’s early industrial heritage #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Tall plants of Himalayan Balsam growing up from beneath, and towering over, a bridge

A cluster of Himalayan Balsam flowers, in white with a tinge of purplish pink, against a woodland background

Two individual flowers of Himalayan Balsam, one viewed from the side, the other from the front

Close-up view into a single Himalayan Balsam flower: white, suffused with pinkish-purple with a scattering of tiny burgundy spots

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Jenny Harris @jnnyharris.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Lesser Butterfly-orchid on the bank of a disused railway line. Beautiful, simply beautiful. Feel the sun on your back. Breathe in the smell of nearby fragrant #orchids. #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

A flower spike bearing around 18 greenish white flowers, against a blurred green background of grasses.

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Dr Richard Bate @thenewgalaxy.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

20/6/26 #Lancashire - It was lovely to meet with friends at Gait Barrows for the peaking Dark Red Helleborines (Epipactis atrorubens), a very local #orchid that grows on the Limestone pavements of Morecambe Bay #wildflowerhour @jnnyharris.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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Jenny Harris @jnnyharris.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Biting Stonecrop (Sedum acre) lighting up a limestone pavement in Cumbria on the longest day of the year. Growing alongside Wild Thyme (Thymus polytrichus) and making me late again for #wildflowerhour ! @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

A cluster of gold, star-shaped flowers of Biting Stonecrop

The gold flowers of Biting Stonecrop alongside a mat of purple Wild Thyme

A miniature forest of Biting Stonecrop growing on a limestone pavement

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Jenny Harris @jnnyharris.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

A glorious display of red and pink Red Valerian (Centranthus ruber) set off by the acid-green flowers of Alchemilla mollis, plus Bush Vetch, Ivy, bindweed and Cotoneaster #ChurchyardFlowers #WildflowerHour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

A row of gravestones surrounded by wild and naturalised plants, including red and pink flowers of Red Valerian and acid green of Alchemilla mollis

Close-up of a cluster of deep-pink 5-petalled flowers of Red Valerian

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Jenny Harris @jnnyharris.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Since starting #NoMowMay, and a patch of #NoMowSummer, the tiny Thyme-leaved Speedwell (Veronica serpyllifolia) has become a regular among my #LawnFlowers. But until today I’d not looked close enough to spot the glinting tiara of glandular hairs on the fruits #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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Jenny Harris @jnnyharris.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Such a convincing insect-mimic is this Fly Orchid (Ophrys insectifera) that a spider has turned up to lie in wait for a tasty lunch 🍽️. My new favourite orchid. Just one of 14 species seen in Kent this weekend with expert help from @mariposanature.bsky.social #wildflowerhour #orchidchallenge

A close-up of a single Fly Orchid flower, growing at a jaunty angle, with a tiny spotty spider clinging on across the gap between one of the lateral sepals and the lip

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Jenny Harris @jnnyharris.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Facing up to my Fabaceae fears this week, I think these are Goat’s Rue (Galega officinalis) and Tufted Vetch (Vicia cracca) at RSPB Rainham Marshes today. Just look at the stipules on the one and the colour of the other! #wildflowerhour

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Jenny Harris @jnnyharris.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Lots of these at RSPB St Aidan’s this week. I know it’s Carrot family, it looks similar to the celery in my fridge but nothing in my wildflower book seems to fit exactly. Hopefully I can rely on a friendly #wildflowerhour botanist to help me out! #wildflowerID

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Jenny Harris @jnnyharris.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Of the techniques available to stay warm on a cold December morning, here’s one I’ve not tried yet. Make like a feather duster Grey Heron, Porter Valley, Sheffield #heron #localparks @everyheron.bsky.social #dentistswithherons

Fluffed-up Grey Heron perched on the branches of a dead fallen tree

Fluffed-up Grey Heron, cropped to focus attention on layer upon layer of subtly-shaded feathers

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Jenny Harris @jnnyharris.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Currently rereading @dunnjons.bsky.social The Glitter in the Green and am happy to confirm it is indeed the perfect antidote to winter. Full of sunshine, adventure and the very best type of glitter ✨

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Jenny Harris @jnnyharris.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

The Florilegium Society at Sheffield Botanical Gardens Join us for our Winter Talk! ⭐️ James Armitage, Editor #RHS Plant Review 📍Dorothy Fox Education Centre, SBG 📆 Monday 1 Dec 2025 🕐 1.30-2.30pm £5 entry (FSSBG members free) #Sheffield #florilegium #botanical #gardens #botanicalillustration

An image in the style of a poster advertising The Florilegium Society at Sheffield Botanical Gardens’ Winter Talk on 1 Dec 2025, 1.30-2.30pm. Features a photo of speaker James Armitage, Editor against a floral background. James will be speaking on ‘The Plant Review: a hidden gem of RHS publishing’

An image in the style of a poster with text advertising a display of paintings from the archive of The Florilegium Society at Sheffield Botanical Gardens, set against a floral background.
Join us at 11.30am-1.30pm for festive refreshments or bring along your lunch. Stay for the Winter Talk 1.30-2.30pm

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Jenny Harris @jnnyharris.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Me: Ooooh, I feel seen 🤗 (‘though I doubt Jon can guess the half of it) Also me: Harumph, I’ve lost the sweepstake on the subject of his new book 😤

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Jenny Harris @jnnyharris.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Since we started doing #NoMowMay in 2020, I’ve been hoping for an orchid to pop up in my lawn. But I’ll take two Pink Waxcap (Porpolomopsis calyptriformis)! AKA Ballerina Waxcap… of course they are 🩰 #MushroomMonday #fungi #mushroom

Two pink mushrooms surrounded by grass, the smaller one sheltering under the cap of the other. The stipes white, with a twist.

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Jenny Harris @jnnyharris.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

I was photographing Reed Buntings on a path through the reed beds, when I was distracted by these bright golden flower heads. Could it be Buttonweed? #wildflowerhour #wildflowerID @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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Jenny Harris @jnnyharris.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

A confused Cowslip on an otherwise very autumnal day at YWT Potteric Carr, Doncaster @yorkswildlife.bsky.social #wildflowerhour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

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Jenny Harris @jnnyharris.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Utterly bonkers about conkers! Horse Chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum) #autumn #conkers

A pocketful of shiny conkers and their cases, tipped on to a kitchen worktop

The yellow-green spiky case of a ripe conker has split open to reveal the shiny chestnut-brown fruit inside

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Jenny Harris @jnnyharris.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

A floral display fringing the pond at Gloucester Services Southbound. Great Willowherb, Purple Loosestrife, Flowering-rush and the twirly-fruits of Meadowsweet. Overhead swallows and dragonflies locked in aerial combat. #wildflowerhour #M5botany @BSBIbotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

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Jenny Harris @jnnyharris.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

I love it when the #wildflowerhour challenge prompts me to find a plant I’ve never noticed before. Could this be Trifid Bur Marigold (Bidens tripartita)? On the banks of Damflask Reservoir, Loxley Valley, Sheffield #DaisyFamily @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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Jenny Harris @jnnyharris.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Common Hemp-nettle (Galeopsis tetrahit) growing alongside Common Nettle (Urticaria dioica) at Thornhill NR, Bamford, Derbyshire #wildflowerhour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social @derbyswildlife.bsky.social

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Jenny Harris @jnnyharris.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

I was photographing bees on Common Knapweed (Centaurea nigra) when I spied something HUGE and GOLD out of the corner of my eye 😳. Hornet-mimic #Hoverfly (Volucella zonaria). Hope Valley, Derbyshire #wildflowerhour #PollinatorPals @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Gold and black striped hoverfly, looking far smaller in the photo than it did in real life!

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Jenny Harris @jnnyharris.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Green-veined White #butterfly on Great Willowherb (Epilobium hirsutum) for #wildflowerhour #PollinatorPals challenge. The flower’s landing pad is helpfully marked out with a cross, that of a 4-lobed stigma. Hope Valley, Derbyshire @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Green-veined White butterfly feasting at the purplish-pink flowers of a head-high forest of Great Willowherb

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Jenny Harris @jnnyharris.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Tiny as they are, eyebrights (Euphrasia spp.) always catch my attention. Here growing on the floor of a disused limestone quarry, at the butterfly heaven that is Hoe Grange Quarry, Derbyshire #wildflowerhour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @derbyswildlife.bsky.social @derbyswildlife.bsky.social

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Jenny Harris @jnnyharris.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Large leafy divided bracts, dark red central flower, umbels form a ball after flowering, spiny fruits. It must be Wild Carrot (Daucus carota), here buffeted by the wind on the approach road to Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire #wildflowerhour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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Jenny Harris @jnnyharris.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

My camera was trained on this rather scruffy skipper when I realised it had led me to a plant new to me that I recognised from #wildflowerhour! Wild Basil (Clinopodium vulgare) at Hoe Grange Quarry, Derbyshire @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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Jenny Harris @jnnyharris.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

So much here to share with parents who are struggling to support their child with #toothbrushing. All the obvious things but also, I’m embarrassed to say, a whole load of extras in the bathroom I’d not thought of. 👃🏻🚽 🧼 🥶 🥵 Well done toothPASTE study! #oralhealth #autism @amritchauhan.bsky.social

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Jenny Harris @jnnyharris.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Effective toothbrushing in childhood is the gateway to a lifetime of #oralhealth. And I’m pretty sure that no one has taken more care to understand the needs of #autistic #children than Dr Amrit Chauhan. Resources developed by the toothPASTE study are now online 👀 👏 @amritchauhan.bsky.social

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Jenny Harris @jnnyharris.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Three of the #DeadnettleFamily growing in the wall of Hind Wheel Dam, #RivelinValley, Sheffield. Hedge Woundwort, Water Mint and Skullcap (x2). Pleased to report neither phone nor glasses were lost overboard while taking these pictures, just a little dignity #WildflowerHour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Skullcap (Scutellaria galericulata), showing the pairs of violet flowers

Skullcap (Scutellaria galericulata), showing the developing fruit

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Jenny Harris @jnnyharris.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Harebells were outnumbered by drifts of Small Scabious in the Yorkshire Dales nature reserves we explored this week, but there’s always something special about those perfect papery bells nodding in the breeze. #wildflowerhour #HarebellChallenge @bsbibotany.bsky.social @yorkswildlife.bsky.social

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Jenny Harris @jnnyharris.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Lesser Meadow-rue (Thalictrum minus) One of many gorgeous plants seen on limestone pavements in the Yorkshire Dales this week. But this one was so dainty and hard to spot, it could be wearing an invisibility cloak #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social @yorkswildlife.bsky.social

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Jenny Harris @jnnyharris.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Field Scabious. Not the hairiest of #hairyplants, but it was the favourite of bees and butterflies on the #MonsalTrail this week. And it’s the one I’ve chosen for this evening’s #wildflowerhour challenge @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social @derbyswildlife.bsky.social

Three flower heads of Field Scabious (Knautia arvensis) seen at different angles, also showing the hairy stem

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