ukflora.bsky.social @ukflora.bsky.social · 21/11/2025@bsbibotany.bsky.social Campanula patula Spreading bellflower still flowering in the garden. A rare biennial species we don't get in the wild in Northamptonshire 062
ukflora.bsky.social @ukflora.bsky.social · 19/11/2025Thought they had died out so pleased to find a Acanthoxyla inermis stick insect in my garden on bramble. I was told once I had the most northern site in the UK for the species 030
ukflora.bsky.social @ukflora.bsky.social · 24/08/2025@bsbibotany.bsky.social #wildflowerhour I think I've got Sand spurrey in a site where one population lost to new buildings but great to find in another spot. Used to be a Northamptonshire rare plant register species 0143
ukflora.bsky.social @ukflora.bsky.social · 24/08/2025@bsbibotany.bsky.social #wildflowerhour looks like got Oak leaved goosefoot new for Northamptonshire. It was an odd looking goosefoot in several car parks of one site. There was quite a bit of it aswell 092
ukflora.bsky.social @ukflora.bsky.social · 01/08/2025@stevenwright58.bsky.social Found so far two spots for Hummingbird hawk moth caterpillars on either ladys or hedge bedstraw, one site in Northants and one site in Warwickshire so far. All four caterpillars found were the green form. 051
ukflora.bsky.social @ukflora.bsky.social · 01/08/2025@bsbibotany.bsky.social Well this is just great! Asked to id a plant that turned up in a garden in Northamptonshire. Its only Yellow dodder by the looks a first Northants record! 041
ukflora.bsky.social @ukflora.bsky.social · 30/07/2025@bsbibotany.bsky.social Well pleased to stumble on new colony of Mousetail Myosurus minimus the other month while monad recording in Northants. Colony must have been 300 strong in gateways where cattle and farm vehicles churn up the ground. A Northants rare plant register species. 092
ukflora.bsky.social @ukflora.bsky.social · 29/07/2025@bsbibotany.bsky.social Close up flower of Little robin Geranium purpureum. A white form too. Thanks to Richard Mabbutt helping me double check i was not seeing things! Two good patches in two gravestones. Northants. Its rare for the vice county too at the moment. 030
ukflora.bsky.social @ukflora.bsky.social · 29/07/2025@bsbibotany.bsky.social During monad recording with fellow Northants county recorder Richard Mabbutt, i finally got one of the plant target species on my shopping list for my vice county, Little robin Geranium purpureum. Got yah! 020
ukflora.bsky.social @ukflora.bsky.social · 29/07/2025@bsbibotany.bsky.social Close up of developing seed Matted sandmat Euphorbia serpens. 1st Northants record. About 13th record for the UK. Well pleased! 020
ukflora.bsky.social @ukflora.bsky.social · 29/07/2025@bsbibotany.bsky.social Some excellent unexpected plant finds while monad recording in recent weeks. First up I got Euphorbia serpens 1st Northants record about 13th record for the UK. Only one plant but one is great to get while waiting for punters for our flora group meeting. 050
ukflora.bsky.social @ukflora.bsky.social · 12/07/2025@anaturalistabroad.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social Here is another picture of that alien Hypericum from Warwickshire. It was an interesting site that i was asked to survey 030
ukflora.bsky.social @ukflora.bsky.social · 12/07/2025@bsbibotany.bsky.social Close up of head of Sea barley by the looks. A5/A43 junction Towcester, Northants First time ive ever seen the beauty here in my county. 0182
ukflora.bsky.social @ukflora.bsky.social · 12/07/2025@bsbibotany.bsky.social With all the roadworks on the A43 near Towcester and stuck in traffic then thats a great time to botanise of carefully keeping eye on traffic aswell. Spotted what looks like Sea barley by the A5/A43 junction at Towcester. Never seen the species in Northants before 070
ukflora.bsky.social @ukflora.bsky.social · 12/07/2025@bsbibotany.bsky.social Also found at same site in Warwickshire this bush of a Hypericum! An alien species but i dont know which. So any help much appreciated guys and girls! 310
ukflora.bsky.social @ukflora.bsky.social · 12/07/2025@bsbibotany.bsky.social Right my botanical allies across the land! Is this Slender rush Juncus tenuis ? Found during survey in Warwickshire. 122
ukflora.bsky.social @ukflora.bsky.social · 17/06/2025Can anyone id this species? Been sent this picture and got permission to post to get an id if can. Impressive insect from Northamptonshire 121
ukflora.bsky.social @ukflora.bsky.social · 10/05/2025Can anyone kind folks id the moth please? Found during monad plant recording in Northamptonshire. Yes I know I should get the id books out and do it myself. No time at moment 100
ukflora.bsky.social @ukflora.bsky.social · 05/05/2025@brianecambs.bsky.social even other species get trapped in roadside drains in urban areas in the spring aswell as amphibians. Rescued this violet ground beetle recently 260
ukflora.bsky.social @ukflora.bsky.social · 04/05/2025@bsbibotany.bsky.social #wildflowerhour my word never seen elder flowering so early now. I think of it as a June flowering species Warwickshire 0222
ukflora.bsky.social @ukflora.bsky.social · 04/05/2025@bsbibotany.bsky.social #wildflowerhour this was very handy small flowered buttercup leaf on left light green creeping buttercup leaf on right dark green. Great to find several colonies of small flowered buttercup in one Warwickshire area. Been told it's a rare plant register species for them or was 0131
ukflora.bsky.social @ukflora.bsky.social · 04/05/2025@bsbibotany.bsky.social #wildflowerhour joining forces with Warwickshire county plant recorder trying to refind mousetail last seen in vc38 in 2001 by me. No luck so far but nice to update record for small flowered buttercup from 2016 from one location 0282
ukflora.bsky.social @ukflora.bsky.social · 30/04/2025@bsbibotany.bsky.social Little and large of the fern world. Wood horsetail on the left with stem of Bracken on the right. Midlands. The excellent news someone has reported finding Wood horsetail in Northamptonshire. I failed to locate it in several of VC32 sites some years ago. 0101
ukflora.bsky.social @ukflora.bsky.social · 30/04/2025@bsbibotany.bsky.social Common cow wheat seedling popping up on one of the Heath fritillary locations in the UK. Common cow wheat is rare plant register species in my county of Northants. Sadly we dont get Heath fritillary in my county. 030
ukflora.bsky.social @ukflora.bsky.social · 30/04/2025@bsbibotany.bsky.social With monad recording underway, a section of the busy A5 checked. Big plant of Garden columbine right on road edge. Didnt get a closer pic as too risky. Sadly didnt find the extinct Watling street thistle which we used to have in Northants in the 1800s but im up 4 a long shot 051
ukflora.bsky.social @ukflora.bsky.social · 25/04/2025@stevenwright58.bsky.social Great to see this species as a caterpillar for the first time. Heath fritillary, several seen sunning themselves on fallen oak leaves 040
ukflora.bsky.social @ukflora.bsky.social · 25/04/2025@mossmalarkey.bsky.social you know it's an unexpected excellent day day when you stumble on this and your hobby is looking for antlers. A big fallow buck. Yes! 140
ukflora.bsky.social @ukflora.bsky.social · 25/04/2025@bsbibotany.bsky.social Brian's natural habitat has been zapped. I will give this roundabout at Leamington a miss looking for interesting plants 010
ukflora.bsky.social @ukflora.bsky.social · 25/04/2025@bsbibotany.bsky.social found Poa infirma now in two different motorway service stations. One on M40 by the A43 junction in Oxfordshire and the other on the M42 junction 2. Both records for both sites look like new 10km by 10km square records. 2161
ukflora.bsky.social @ukflora.bsky.social · 25/04/2025@bsbibotany.bsky.social interesting record. Looks like a naturalised specimen of Rosemary. I've only ever seen this species once before naturalised in Northamptonshire 171
ukflora.bsky.social @ukflora.bsky.social · 20/04/2025@bsbibotany.bsky.social Cotswold pennycress numbers are way down on 3 locations i help do habitat management 4 this year in Oxfordshire. There is no need to panic as there is a good seedbank. All plants hit by rabbits have produced many multi stems which in turn will produce lots of seeds. 0171
ukflora.bsky.social @ukflora.bsky.social · 20/04/2025@bsbibotany.bsky.social Bur chervil A45 near Dodford Northants. Need to check data incase this is a new site for this increasing species. Northants 180
ukflora.bsky.social @ukflora.bsky.social · 20/04/2025@bsbibotany.bsky.social Glad i got my directions wrong and went into the monad i was not meant to record in! Got Bur chervil by the A45 near Dodford Northants. A species on the increase in my county and was once a rare plant. Not such much now in Northants Heres habitat shot 020
ukflora.bsky.social @ukflora.bsky.social · 20/04/2025You know its a great day when you unexpectedly find a cast Sika deer antler. Im glad i walked the perimeter fenceline. This location ive not visited since the late 1980s. England 000
ukflora.bsky.social @ukflora.bsky.social · 18/04/2025Can anyone id this mineral found on a beach in Greece by friends 001
ukflora.bsky.social @ukflora.bsky.social · 18/04/2025Can anyone id this shrub a friend has in Northamptonshire 320
ukflora.bsky.social @ukflora.bsky.social · 17/04/2025Anyone id this slug feeding on lichens on rock in Leicestershire 6425
ukflora.bsky.social @ukflora.bsky.social · 17/04/2025@bsbibotany.bsky.social garden grape hyacinth with common whitlow grass naturalized in path long Buckby Northamptonshire the other week 0113
ukflora.bsky.social @ukflora.bsky.social · 15/04/2025@bsbibotany.bsky.social @stevenwright58.bsky.social pale corydalis a nice surprise in Warwickshire. A species I've only seen twice in Northamptonshire in the past 1212
ukflora.bsky.social @ukflora.bsky.social · 10/04/2025When it works it works! Great crested newt using polystyrene float in drain Northamptonshire. Saves it from drowning 161
ukflora.bsky.social @ukflora.bsky.social · 10/04/2025Very thin leaves. I was thinking same species as you. 141
ukflora.bsky.social @ukflora.bsky.social · 10/04/2025@bsbibotany.bsky.social @rogerhorton.bsky.social interesting grape hyacinth species but not sure what type. Naturalised in long Buckby Northamptonshire 2101
ukflora.bsky.social @ukflora.bsky.social · 02/04/2025There was a lot of a solitary bee species using an ancient mud wall in Long Buckby in Northamptonshire. This was a dead one below the wall. Anyone help id the species please? 110
ukflora.bsky.social @ukflora.bsky.social · 18/03/2025@bsbibotany.bsky.social @stevenwright58.bsky.social my hunch was right! Got Poa infirma Rugby in Warwickshire. Plant in foreground of picture 2131
ukflora.bsky.social @ukflora.bsky.social · 16/03/2025@bsbibotany.bsky.social #wildflowerhour I think bulbous buttercup when expanding searches for Lizard orchid Corby Northamptonshire 071
ukflora.bsky.social @ukflora.bsky.social · 16/03/2025@bsbibotany.bsky.social #wildflowerhour blue fleabane roadside and industrial estate Daventry Northamptonshire during monad recording 1203
ukflora.bsky.social @ukflora.bsky.social · 16/03/2025@bsbibotany.bsky.social #wildflowerhour coltsfoot Daventry Northamptonshire during monad recording 0162
ukflora.bsky.social @ukflora.bsky.social · 16/03/2025@bsbibotany.bsky.social @commonbynature.bsky.social the single clump of a spurge I'm not sure about. Corby Northamptonshire 121
ukflora.bsky.social @ukflora.bsky.social · 16/03/2025@bsbibotany.bsky.social @commonbynature.bsky.social can anyone id this spurge. One clump found at Corby Northamptonshire 155
ukflora.bsky.social @ukflora.bsky.social · 16/03/2025I wish this could be done on every spot where toads cross to give them a chance. Sadly it's not the case. But well done for this where it can be done. This is the first time I've ever seen this type of excellent sign. 051
