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mattrjones.bsky.social @mattrjones.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Forked Sundew (Drosera binata) forming some fairly large stands on this Studland mire. #wildflowerhour

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mattrjones.bsky.social @mattrjones.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Saltmarsh Aster (Symphyotrichum squamatum) flowering away at their known spot on Plymouth Hoe. #wildflowerhour

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mattrjones.bsky.social @mattrjones.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Ludwigia x kentiana (False Hampshire Purslane) with those tiny petals that clearly separate it from the native L. palustris. #wildflowerhour

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mattrjones.bsky.social @mattrjones.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Six Stamened Waterwort (Elatine hexandra) flowering in abundance on Studland 😍 #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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mattrjones.bsky.social @mattrjones.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Continuing with aquatic neophytes I met for the first time this week: Cabomba caroliniana. Surely one of the hairiest plants that grows fully submerged? #wildflowerhour

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mattrjones.bsky.social @mattrjones.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Sagittaria graminea. Another new one to me and chuffed to catch one of the beautiful flowers just hanging on. #wildflowerhour

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mattrjones.bsky.social @mattrjones.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Pickerelweed (Pontederia cordata). A new one for me whilst on a southern botanical adventure this weekend. A neophyte and often removed but persisting at this pond. #wildflowerhour

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mattrjones.bsky.social @mattrjones.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Potamogeton x schreberi in the River Stour this afternoon. Only known from this river in Britain and with few sites elsewhere in Europe.

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mattrjones.bsky.social @mattrjones.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I completely missed #wildflowerhour last night. But here's the magnificent Potamogeton x olivaceous (Graceful Pondweed) that I spent yesterday evening admiring 😍

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mattrjones.bsky.social @mattrjones.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Wavy St John's Wort (Hypericum undulatum) a very good contender for #favouriteplant from a fabulous trip to South Wales this summer #wildflowerhour

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mattrjones.bsky.social @mattrjones.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

#favouriteplant is a hard one after such a magically botanical year but finally meeting Arctic Sandwort (and both subspecies about a week apart!) is high up there! #wildflowerhour

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mattrjones.bsky.social @mattrjones.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The gorgeous Potamogeton x variifolius (P. berchtoldii x P. natans). Fairly unique looking amongst British and Irish Pots. Really tiny floating leaves and linear submerged leaves. Growing in good stands in the Glenamoy River, Mayo. #wildflowerhour

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mattrjones.bsky.social @mattrjones.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Potamogeton x cooperi. (P. crispus x P. perfoliatus). A ridiculously beautiful Pondweed 😍 Lateral veins, leaf attachment and toothing intermediate between parents. Also has a compressed stem with slight furrows either side from crispus parent (much more obvious on a cross section). #wildflowerhour

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mattrjones.bsky.social @mattrjones.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Chara tomentosa (Coral Stonewort) 😍 Probably our most distinctive charophyte. Only found in a few spectacular marl lakes.

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mattrjones.bsky.social @mattrjones.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Irish Lady's Tresses (Spiranthes romanzoffiona) 😍 1st September and still looking absolutely fabulous in Mayo! @ukorchids.bsky.social @bsbiireland.bsky.social

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mattrjones.bsky.social @mattrjones.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Sparganium natans has been the other highlight of the week. A huge submerged population seen in Donegal and then today in the Burren a few fab populations flowering away 😍 #wildflowerhour

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mattrjones.bsky.social @mattrjones.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Potamogeton x sparganifolius in an unfortunately urban setting. #wildflowerhour

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mattrjones.bsky.social @mattrjones.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

A common hybrid but as perfoliatus is normally in deeper water it's not always easy to get a clear comparison shot like this #wildflowerhour

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mattrjones.bsky.social @mattrjones.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Potamogeton x undulatus. One of the most beautiful aquatic plants I've ever seen! Retains the characteristic compressed stem of the crispus parent. #wildflowerhour

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mattrjones.bsky.social @mattrjones.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Potamogeton x griffithii. Known from just a couple of sites in Britain and Ireland. Hooded leaf tips a good indication of praelongus parentage. #wildflowerhour

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mattrjones.bsky.social @mattrjones.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Should've taken a better shot of the whole plant but this beauty is Potamogeton rutilus. First found in Ireland last year and seen in some abundance earlier this week. #wildflowerhour

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mattrjones.bsky.social @mattrjones.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Najas flexilis (Slender Naiad) was one of the highlights of aquatic plant bothering in Donegal this week. #wildflowerhour

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mattrjones.bsky.social @mattrjones.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Lovely to see some fabulous stands of Dwarf Stonewort (Nitella tenuissima) amongst other Charophytes and Utricularia minor and U. intermedia agg in old peat cuttings in the Burren today (some pools with 6 Charophyte species in!)

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mattrjones.bsky.social @mattrjones.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Potamogeton lucens (Shining Pondweed) putting on an incredible display in Donegal 😍 @bsbiireland.bsky.social

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mattrjones.bsky.social @mattrjones.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Huge stands of Chara rudis also from Kindrum Lough. Sort of like a huge C. vulgaris with the appressed spines but the spines here are in clusters.

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mattrjones.bsky.social @mattrjones.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Incredible stands of the beautiful Chara curta (Lesser Bearded Stonewort) from Kindrum loch. Dominating a wide zone and with very little encrustation.

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mattrjones.bsky.social @mattrjones.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Extensive stands of the annex hab 3270 exposed at Coole Park this year. Thousands of plants of Mudwort (Limosella aquatica) and at least hundreds of Callitriche Palustris. Incredible! 😍 #wildflowerhour

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mattrjones.bsky.social @mattrjones.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Catching the last flowers of these beauties this week. Northern Bedstraw and Fen Violet with just a few flowers left at Coole Park. Both Water Plantain and Lesser Water Plantain still flowering really well at Dromore. #wildflowerhour @bsbiireland.bsky.social

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mattrjones.bsky.social @mattrjones.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Mackay's Horsetail (Equisetum x trachyodon) along the south shore of Lough bunny. Last recorded here 22 years ago. #wildflowerhour

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mattrjones.bsky.social @mattrjones.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Greater Water Parsnip (Sium latifolium). A magnificent plant that's declined terribly in Britain. Over in Ireland less so and this weekend I saw it fairly frequently along a stretch of the river Fergus. #wildflowerhour @bsbiireland.bsky.social

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mattrjones.bsky.social @mattrjones.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Water Germander (Teucrium scordium) looking incredible this afternoon in the Burren 😍 A huge population in full flower was very special to see (I've only previously caught the odd vegetative plant here much earlier in summer). #wildflowerhour @bsbiireland.bsky.social

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mattrjones.bsky.social @mattrjones.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Tuberous Thistle (Cirsium tuberosum) at Nash point Lighthouse grasslands this morning. A rare plant in Britain and a first for me. #bythesea #wildflowerhour

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mattrjones.bsky.social @mattrjones.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Sorbus domestica and the Barry coastline this morning 😍 Wonderful surprise to see lots of Purple Gromwell on the walk up. #bythesea #wildflowerhour

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mattrjones.bsky.social @mattrjones.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Nit Grass (Gastridium ventricosum) 😍 New to me today at Pwlldu head in the south Wales coast. #bythesea #wildflowerhour

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mattrjones.bsky.social @mattrjones.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Limonium sanctamargaritense is my new favourite species name. Met them this week in St Margaret's Bay where the known global population is found #bythesea #wildflowerhour

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mattrjones.bsky.social @mattrjones.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Orobanche picridis 😍 Just a single spike of this stunner still flowering at their best British site at Kingsdown. Normally flower into August but seemed to have succumbed to the weather as have many plants. #bythesea #wildflowerhour

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mattrjones.bsky.social @mattrjones.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Marshmallow (Althaea officinalis) is a very special plant for me. Being from the Northwest I've only seen them once before and working in sites full of them this week was magic! Also a surprise Lesser Emperor! Working in Ecology is incredible #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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mattrjones.bsky.social @mattrjones.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

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mattrjones.bsky.social @mattrjones.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Potamogeton epihydrus (American Pondweed) was the botanical highlight of my week. Growing in abundance in the Rochdale canal. #wildflowerhour

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mattrjones.bsky.social @mattrjones.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Juncus jacquinii 😍 A plant I'd never heard of before this trip. Looks somewhat like Schoenus at first glance but once in flower has distinctly Juncus-like tepals and a wild contrast of yellow and pink on open florets. Found growing in abundance along the edges of rich alpine flushes.

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mattrjones.bsky.social @mattrjones.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Botanical paradise up above the Stelvio pass. An incredible diversity of alpines everywhere but up on the barer high plateaus the mosaic of Glacier Buttercup, Bavarian Gentian and Alpine Rock Jasmine was spectacular 😍

Glacier Buttercup (Ranunculus glacialis)

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mattrjones.bsky.social @mattrjones.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Stumbled upon a fabulous flush system en route to some upland plateaus. Carex magellanica in abundance along with C. pauciflora and lots of C. flava. Biggest surprise was huge numbers of small beautiful Gentians in some of the flushes. I think they're Samiland Gentian (Comastoma tenellum).

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mattrjones.bsky.social @mattrjones.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Carex baldensis 😍 an absolutely cracking plant and the final Sedge of a mega week of plants in Italy.

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mattrjones.bsky.social @mattrjones.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Homogyne alpina (Purple Colts Foot) has been incredibly abundant in most of the places we've visited in Italy this week. Just one site in Britain where it seems unlikely to be a natural occurrence so was constantly exciting to see here! Mostly gone over but a few still flowering beautifully.

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mattrjones.bsky.social @mattrjones.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Another very exciting plant pathogen this afternoon! Hyalopsora adianti-capilli-veneris on Maidenhair Fern (Adiantum capillus-veneris). Nice enough surprise to stumble across a gorgeous Palustriella tufa flush with lots of the fern. Been checking Adiantum in Britain for this rust for a long time!

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mattrjones.bsky.social @mattrjones.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I've spent the week botanising in the Italian Alps and have met so many incredible species. The beautiful Alpine Clover (Trifolium alpinum) was a standout, a plant i'd never heard of before the trip.

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mattrjones.bsky.social @mattrjones.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Carex myosuroides was a new Sedge to me this week. Seen growing up at 2000m+ and in some areas forming quite large stands. Although it took an awful lot of searching to find some plants with the smut Anthracoidea elynae.

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mattrjones.bsky.social @mattrjones.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Anthracoidea capillaris on Hair Sedge (Carex capillaris). Walking up a slope with thousands of Hair Sedge plants I was hoping i'd see this but was still very chuffed to come across it 😍 Just a few plants were hosting the smut.

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mattrjones.bsky.social @mattrjones.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

A large population of the fabulous Ivy Leaved Bellflower (Wahlenbergia hederacea) was a very nice surprise at work this week! #wildflowerhour

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