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My favourite fern this year, Pillwort, Pilularia globulifera, #WildflowerHour #FavourtiePlants

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From a field of Lucerne behind my house this week, Yellow Star-thistle, Centaurea solstitialis #WildflowerHour

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And another #FavouritePlant, from the village woods this Spring is the Wood Anemone, Anemone nemerosa, #WildflowerHour

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

Possibly my #FavouritePlant this year, Yellow Centaury, Cicendia filiformis #WildflowerHour

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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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Jo Stephen @jostephen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This summer I met 22 of our wild Orchids whilst out and about and here they all are.

Early Spider, Early Purple, Green-winged, Heath Spotted, Common Spotted, Twayblade, Burnt, Bird's-nest, Early Marsh White Heleborine, Greater Butterfly, Southern Marsh, Fly, Pyramidal, Green-flowered Heleborine Marsh Heleborine, Broad-leaved Heleborine, Bog, Autumn Ladie's Tresses.

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Jo Stephen @jostephen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Autumn Ladies Tresses, Spiranthes spiralis, on the Dorset Downs, yesterday.

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Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland (BSBI) @bsbibotany.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Here's a great opportunity to support Identiplant, our very popular online #WildflowerID course: by becoming an Identiplant tutor! Find out how you can help beginner botanists get started, by attending an online intro session at 7pm on Tuesday 22 Sept: www.tickettailor.com/events/botan...

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Wren Franklin @wrenfranklin.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Pennyroyal (Mentha pulegium) looking resplendent in full flower as the pond water disappears from around it. North Dorset. @dorsetflora.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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Marsh Gentian, Gentiana pneumonanthe, on the Purbecks #wetlandplants #Wildflowerhour

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Marsh St. John's Wort, Hypericum elodes, on the Purbecks this week #wetlandplants #WildflowerHour

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From Dorset for International #bogday: Bog Asphodel, Nordic Butterwort, Marsh Gentian, Pale Butterwort, Bog Orchid, Round-leaved Sundew, Brown Beak-sedge, Pillwort & White Beak-sedge.

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Wren Franklin @wrenfranklin.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

There were so many Grayling on the wing in the Purbecks this week, none of them where particularly interested in posing for their photograph though.

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Today, I led a @dorsetflora.bsky.social field meeting to record plants on some unrecorded chalk grassland in north Dorset. 111 species, 27 Dorset notables. At some points the butterflies stole the show! Thanks @jostephen.bsky.social for your help.

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Jo Stephen @jostephen.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Flowering on the north Dorset Downs this morning: Wild Basil, Wild Carrots, Knapweed, Red Bartsia, Small Scabious, Wild Parsnip, Restharrow, Wild Thyme, Squinancywort and Carline Thistle.

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Martin Rak @martinrak.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Some images of water 💦

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Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland (BSBI) @bsbibotany.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Say hello to the botanists who started it all! We've added 300+ digitised historical titles to our website, from County Floras to periodicals to Herbals dating back to 1571. We're also bringing our digital archives home & unlocking vital plant history. Explore & support: bsbi.org/blog/2026/07...

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The tiny white flower of a Round-leaved Sundew, Drosera rotundifolia #WildflowerHour

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Sea Aster, Tripolium pannonicum, at the Dorset coast this week #WildflowerHour

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One of many Bog Orchids, Hammarbya paludosa, I met yesterday #WildflowerHour

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Marsh Mallow, Althaea officinalis, on the Dorset coast this week #wildflowerhour

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Jo Stephen @jostephen.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Marsh Cinquefoil, Comarum palustre, flowering in the ditches of Wareham Common yesterday #wildflowerhour

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Green-flowered Heleborine, Epipactis phyllanthes, Ainsdale NNR #wildflowerhour

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A Pyramidal Orchid, Anacamptis pyramidalis, on the Chickerell ranges #wildflowerhour

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My favourite grass (this week), French Oat Grass, Gaudinia fragalis, who I met on the Isle of Wight & in Dorset #wildflowerhour

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Clustered Bellflower, Campanula glomerata, on the downs this evening #WildflowerHour

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Quaking Grass, Briza media, on the downs this evening #WildflowerHour

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Grass Vetchling, Lathyrus nissolia, on the Chickerell ranges yesterday #wildflowerhour

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Fairy Flax, Linum catharticum, flowering along the sides of the tracks across the heath this morning #wildflowerhour

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Bird's-foot, Ornithopus perpusillus, on the heath this morning #wildflowerhour

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Scarlet Pimpernel, Lysimachia arvensis, on the heath this morning #wildflowerhour

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Wall Speedwell, Veronica arvensis, on the heath this morning #wildflowerhour

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Coral Necklace, Illecebrum verticillatum, on the Purbecks this morning #wildflowerhour

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One of two tiny Frog Orchids, Dactylorhiza viridis, I found on the downs yesterday morning #wildflowerhour

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