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Fran Sinclair

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Plants are my passion but the rest of the world is pretty fascinating, too. Except sport.

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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Shame about Google’s option for a collage of 5, but Many-seeded Goosefoot does warrant some publicity; such an attractive plant. And what cute ray florets on this Canadian Fleabane! #WildflowerHour
Many-seeded Goosefoot, Yellow Corydalis, Ivy, Adria Bellflower and Canadian Fleabane
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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Quick snaps on shopping trips etc in Bradford-on-Avon this week #WildflowerHour
Procumbent Yellow-sorrel (purple variety), Cyclamen, Autumn Hawkbit, White Dead-nettle, Dandelion and Black NightsgadeChicory, Fool’s-parsley, a gutter Buddleja, Wild Carrot, Welted Thistle and a Mayweed.
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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
From Monday’s stroll on Oliver’s Castle near Devizes: Harebell, Red Bartsia, Perforate St John’s-wort, Devil’s-bit Scabious, Burnet-Saxifrage and Knapweed #WildflowerHour
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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A camouflaged spider on a Woolly Thistle seed head for #WildWebsWednesday in nearby Poulton meadow.
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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Rather slender for #ThickTrunkTuesday, this is one of several Beech trees on Oliver’s Castle hill fort near Devizes. So beautiful up there yesterday.
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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Not much time for botanising this week so just a few from Kilkenny; from top left Black Medick, Common Mallow, Perennial Sowthistle, Field Poppy, Atlas Poppy and Borage #WildflowerHour
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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Not really a #WildWebsWednesday candidate but this Square-spot Rustic was a not unwelcome visitor to my B&B room in Kilkenny last night
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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
And, of course, Beggarticks Bidens frondosa, today’s specimens at Bradford-on-Avon Wharf on the K&A canal, on lock gates and in canal walls. Still a #FavouritePlant despite becoming common as muck locally! #WildflowerHour
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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Who could not love Yellow Nonea Nonea lutea? A surprise find spreading in grass in South Wraxall - immediately a #FavouritePlant for the year #WildflowerHour
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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I’d been keeping my eye out for New Zealand Bitter-cress Cardamine corymbosa on Silver Street in Bradford -on-Avon for several years, so I was delighted and relieved to finally see it this March. Such a compact, pretty member of that family! #FavouritePlant #WildflowerHour
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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Definitely a “Well hello! What are you doing here?!” moment in Melksham in February. A #FavouritePlant and county first (which is nice) Mediterranean Nettle Urtica membranacea for #WildflowerHour
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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
For #FungiFriday have a lickable Dog Vomit Slime Mould 😉 and a False Chanterelle holding what @ghostofdatura.bsky.social might call Forbidden Soup 😄
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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Just another waterside patch; Beggarticks, Water Mint, Gipsywort, Amphibious Bistort and …Snapdragon…🤔😄
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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
#Fruits from the Kennet & Avon Canal - in a lock as well as beside the towpath - and Southleigh Wood, near Warminster. #WildflowerHour
Himalayan Honeysuckle / Flowering Nutmeg Leycesteria formosa, then (below right) Sloes and escaped Firethorn, Hawthorn and Bramble, Rowan, Holly (almost ripe already!), and to the left, a blurry picture Honeysuckle and some Woody Nightshade
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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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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Some #Seedheads before they got too soggy (names in Alt) for this week’s #WildflowerHour
Top left clockwise, Greater Burdock Arctium lappa, Small Teasel Dipsacus pilosus, Common Teasel  D. fullonum, Lesser Burdock A. minusHemlock Conium maculatum, Stone Parsley Sison amomum, Oil-seed Rape Brassica napus, Hemp Agrimony Eupatorium cannabinum, Himalayan Balsam Impatiens glandulifera
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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Helophilus pendulus on Gipsywort next to Beggarticks for #WildWebsWednesday
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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
…my annual Beggarticks hunt began along the Kennet & Avon canal and, growing out of joints in the canal walls, I found Skullcap, Beggarticks (lots!), Gipsywort and, bizarrely, Small Teasel! #WildflowerHour #WallPlants
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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
It looked as though it was going to be slim pickings for the #WildflowerHour #WallPlants challenge, with only Yellow Corydalis, Ivy-leaved Toadflax, Trailing Bellflower, Wall Lettuce and Mexican Daisy on nearby walls in Bradford-on-Avon, but then…
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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
It seemed like the veggie equivalent of eating a pet rabbit - such cute flowers on New Zealand Spinach. Good greens.
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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Verges brown, hedges and trees mostly looking rather autumnal along this lane, but the Hops! Scrambling along and over and up everything! Wilsford, Wiltshire.
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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
An oak that has been gradually shedding a few branches in the parched grass of Brockwell Park, Herne Hill #ThickTrunkTuesday
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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
My only find for #WildflowerHour #CommonNames theme was this Dittander Lepidium latifolium; my first encounter with the plant, so it was worth missing a bus! More info in ALT
There doesn’t seem to be a story to its name but Dittander was used as a condiment in the past and also as a medicinal herb against leprosy. I saw it as an urban weed in London.
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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Green-veined White nectaring on Devil’s-bit Scabious on a rather overgrown ride in Somerford Common #WildWebsWednesday
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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Surprising how many of the #DaisyFamily are coping with heat and drought, brightening browned lawns and path edges everywhere #WildflowerHour (names in Alt).
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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
A species I’ve long wanted to see: Golden Dock Rumex maritimus at Cotswold Water Park on Wednesday. What a fabulous plant! #WildflowerHour
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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
It’s usually tiny plants that a hand lens makes stunning, but the detail in a Dark Mullein Verbascum nigrum flower is amazing! So I had to check out Great Mullein Verbascum thapsus too - not quite so much 1970s pow! but still superb. #WildflowerHour
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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
A lovely cool breeze at Severn Beach for my #ByTheSea collection for #WildflowerHour a thoroughly enjoyable few hours 🙂. Names in Alt.
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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
On the ceiling of the hallway this evening - a Lilac Beauty Apeira syringaria; a beautiful moth. Potted and freed in Bradford-on-Avon #TeamMoth
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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
They strimmed down the Mayweeds and Geranium rotundifolium along the wall but kept the (admittedly statuesque) Burdock (near the white van) which is repaying them handsomely. I hope the young footballers appreciate it. 🙄
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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Now that I’ve got my train ticket to find plants #ByTheSea there’s no need to save up my #PavementPlants for Sunday’s #WildflowerHour! Names in Alt - was tempted to call the Oxalis Rorschach’s Sorrel 😊
Pseudofumaria alba making a repeat appearance along Trowbridge RdEchinochloa crus-galli - one of my favourite grassesOxalis corniculataHieracium sp along a car park wall
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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Found this glabrous Amaranthus sp last week and returned yesterday hoping for seeds to confirm either A. hybridus or A. retroflexus. All other weeds untouched but this one taken without trace ☹️
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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Lastly, Wild Teasel, Woolly Thistle, Small Scabious and Dwarf Thistle. The last three from today’s meeting and the Teasel just because. #WildflowerHour
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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Three Clustered Bellflower from today’s #WiltsBotSoc meeting on the National Trust’s Stonehenge arable reversion sites - a very impressive selection of chalk grassland species in the fields where reversion began a fair few years ago. And a cool breeze too! #WildflowerHour
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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
A few #PavementPlants for #WildflowerHour too - Chicory, Lady’s Bedstraw and, more reasonably for an urban setting, Garden Lobelia all in Bradford-on-Avon
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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
The edge of the K&A canal was the closest I got to #WetlandPlants this week. Orange Balsam and Wild Angelica qualify but the Greater Burdock doesn’t much care where it finds itself. #WildflowerHour
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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Gatekeeper on Hemp-agrimony with attendant Mallards on the K&A canal #WildWebsWednesday
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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Mystery oddities in mown grass/ equisetum in southern Lapland last week. No other part of plants visible. Wondered if they were galls or phyllody (but of what?); anyone have an idea, please?
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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
White Marsh Thistle at Landford Bog, Bristly Ox-tongue, Ragwort, Hemp-agrimony and Field Bindweed close to K&A canal, and Ploughman’s Spikenard 😍 #StillFlowering on top of a wall for #WildflowerHour
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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
All #StillFlowering beside the Avon: Great Willowherb, Gypsywort, Branched Bur-reed and Tansy with Purple Loosestrife #WildflowerHour
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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Recorded these Broad-leaved Helleborines in 2024 when they had already gone over, last year they didn’t flower, but this year Yay! Extra spikes and #StillFlowering - such wonderful plants! #WildflowerHour
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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
The interesting ones from my Finland trip that were harder to identify without books and time alone! Help/corrections would be much appreciated @ghostofdatura.bsky.social @bramblebotanist.bsky.social
Gnaphalium sylvaticum? Lycopodium annotinum? On the edge of a ditch. Spinulum annotinum?Bistorta vivipara - swathes of it beside roads north of Oulu
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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
... that this is an industrial revolution built on better, cheaper and more reliable technologies, that would be worth investing in even if there was no such thing as climate change What if the altruistic narratives are crowding out the self-interested ones?
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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Apart from those that bit me, the invertebrates in Finland were beautiful! Ichneumon on car, Hoverfly on a Hieracium, Bee Beetle & small Bumblebee on Melancholy Thistle, Carpet Moth on window, Dark Green Fritillary on Clover, Northern Blue maybe on Goldenrod, plus a moth! #WildWebsWednesday
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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
My hosts don’t know what happened to this tree but it is protected as a landmark in Siika-Kämä, Finland #ThickTrunkTuesday
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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Some of the highlights of the last few days in Finland - Spreading Bellflower, Twinflower, Jacob’s Ladder, Fringed Pink, Melancholy Thistle and Cowbane. Not really for #WildflowerHour since they’re out of country, but thrilling to find 😍
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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Collecting Cloudberries and midges in Siika-Kämä I happened upon Round-leaved Sundew Drosera rotundifolia 🙂
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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Some wonderful plants here in Oulu but the one I would most like to take home (so far) is Woolly Burdock Arctium tomentosum
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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
#WiltsBotSoc peeps, note C. glom 😮😍
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Jeremy Sanders @jeremyjem.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
A very enjoyable trip to WWT's scenic Morgan Hill reserve with @notfrangible.bsky.social last Monday to see orchids and other flora. IDs in ALT text. #wildflowerhour #orchid @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @ukorchids.bsky.social @europeanorchids.bsky.social
Top row: Common Spotted-orchid, Frog Orchid, and Marsh Helleborine.
Middle row: Marsh Helleborine and Round-headed Rampion.
Bottom row: Lady's Bedstraw, Squinancywort, and Eyebright.
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