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Dotted Sedge, Carex punctata, at Studland yesterday #wildflowerhour #grasschallenge

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Common Figwort in a damp, shaded spot, NW Leicestershire. #wildflowerhour

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#Dionysia odora subsp. odora #Primulaceae Kermanshah, Iran April 2025 | Elevation: 1850 m This species looks like a natural bonsai.

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Sayers Ole Meadow, Norfolk, eastern England. Arable 19 years ago. Abandoned for 5 years & then annually mowed. No seeds or plants ever introduced. It is now a very species-rich hay meadow with many locally umcommon species. A miracle! A lesson! Just give nature a chance!

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Two great opportunities to gain confidence identifying Grasses and Sedges in the field with @bsbibotany.bsky.social Grasses Id, Castle Coole, Enniskillen - 5th July Sedges Id, Crom NT Estate, Fermanagh - 11th July Book at bsbi.org/botanical-sk... @ulsterwildlife.bsky.social @nationaltrust.org.uk

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‘Sedges have edges, rushes are round, grasses have nodes right down to the ground’ This week’s challenge is to find a flowering sedge, grass or rush! Post your pics for #WildflowerHour this Sunday 8-9pm using the hashtag #GrassChallenge! 🌾

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Two @bsbibotany.bsky.social recording days this week! Thursday 26th June at Grangemore NT NR, Castlerock Friday 27th June at Gortmore Viewpoint, Binevenagh Join us to explore these interesting sites. Still places available for both these Northern Irish events. Book here bsbi.org/field-meetin...

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If you'll be within reach of #Sligo on Saturday 28th June, why not join our @bsbibotany.bsky.social field outing to Slish Wood, to see all these plants and much more, including lots of woodland #ferns, #grasses and #sedges. To find more and book a (free) place, visit bsbi.org/field-meetin... 🌾🌿🪻🌼🌱🌸🏵

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Some #AquaticPlants for #WildflowerHour from Bradford-on-Avon: Common Club-rush, Branched Bur-reed, and Yellow Water-lily

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Always wonderful to be in the company of a Bee orchid. #WildflowerHour

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Some #AquaticPlants for #WildflowerHour (clockwise from top left): Flowering Rush, Yellow Waterlily, Water-plantain and Branched Bur-reed. Bedford, Beds.

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Two surveys with #Anglesey Flora Group this week. Here's some highlights from our visit to Breakwater Country Park including Petty Whin and Adder's Tongue #Wildflowerhour

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Spring Sandwort at peak flower on old lead mining spoil in the Yorkshire Dales today. More information on this very particular plant on the BSBI Atlas 2020 page plantatlas2020.org/atlas/2cd4p9... #WildflowerHour

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Celery-leaved Buttercup along the River Sence, NW Leicestershire. #AquaticPlants #wildflowerhour

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AMAZING NEWS!!!! Known from less than 10 places in England and just one site left in Cheshire, this beaut saltmarsh flat-sedge (Blysmus rufus) was found for the first time today on Hoylake beach on Wirral!!! So exciting eeee 😍🌱

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With warmer temperatures forecast for the end of the week hopefully you’ll appreciate a watery theme for this week’s challenge! Find wild or naturalised aquatic plants in bloom and share for #wildflowerhour this Sunday 8-9pm using the hashtag #AquaticPlants 💦🌱

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Want to come to Ranscombe Farm tomorrow to see some fabulous arable & chalk grassland plants? We're holding a joint meeting with our friends @plantlifeuk.bsky.social (it's their reserve) & there are still some spaces available! Info, target plants & booking details here: bsbi.org/events/ransc...

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Why would you want a neat stripy boring lifeless lawn when you can have a shaggy, flower-filled paradise for pollinators? Maybe this short video will provide some inspiration! youtu.be/2SJFg3NbrFY

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Beautiful Hoary Plantain (Plantago media), quite scarce in Ireland but thriving in this #GreatIrishGrasslands site in Co. Limerick (VC H8) A real treat to see it during the @bsbibotany.bsky.social field meeting with @ollysflora123.bsky.social 🌿💚 #WildflowerHour

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A Bristol city park, with a golf course, mountain bike trails, two deer parks, fields for events & much more - PLUS a vast area managed as meadow-land with nesting skylarks! Ox-eye daisies, Common Spotted orchids, Yellow Rattle, buttercups, clover, hawkbits, grasses... #wildflowerhour #UrbanPlants

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BSBI field meetings are always fantastic days! Most are absolutely free & you don't even need to be a BSBI member. Find out more: bsbi.org/field-meetin...

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Frog Orchid, Dactylorhiza virdis, on the downs on Friday #wildflowerhour

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Wild Mignonette not quite #UrbanPlants but growing very close to a road! #WildflowerHour

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Meadow Cranesbill (Geranium pratense) flowering in a floodplain meadow, Leicestershire. #wildflowerhour

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Last week our good friend @trevorthebotanist.bsky.social launched his new book #UrbanPlants so we thought it would be a great theme for #WildflowerHour! Let’s celebrate our wild urban flowers for this week’s challenge! Share your finds this Sunday 8-9pm!

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A dazzling Swollen-thighed beetle (Oedemera nobilis) and little rove beetle sharing a fragrant meal in a wild rose 🪲🌸🌿🤍 #WildWebsWednesday #NatureBeauty #insect #wildlife #flower #naturelovers #coleoptera #wildflower #nature

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June is the month to see floodplain meadows in all their finery. Those on Yorkshire Ouse are a tapestry of pink Bistort, golden buttercups and rusty Sorrel with the creamy froth of Meadowsweet and the mauve pom-poms of Great Burnet appearing shortly. 📷Clifton Ings, on N edge of central York

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I've saved my favourite until last - the utterly gorgeous Viper's Bugloss, Echium vulgare. Just such a stunning plant. #Wildflowerhour

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Ooh, a very rare member of the #PeaFamily spotted by @amymoscrop.bsky.social for #WildFlowerHour! Find out more about Small Restharrow, including the (very few) places where it grows, on its #PlantAtlas2020 page: plantatlas2020.org/atlas/2cd4p9...

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Lovely displays of Bird's-foot Trefoil (for #PeaFamily challenge) and Selfheal, attracting pollinators on a verge, Leicestershire. #wildflowerhour

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Hurrah, it's here at last! Urban Plants by @trevorthebotanist.bsky.social is published today by @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social. If (like Trevor) you're one of our #BSBImembers, you can claim a whopping 25% discount when you order your copy. Find out more: bsbipublicity.blogspot.com/2025/06/urba...

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I want to connect with and highlight more trans voices working with plants, wildlife, and the natural environment so I've created a starter pack! If this sounds like you, introduce yourself by quote-posting this skeet and I'll add you to the list 🏳️‍⚧️

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Are you looking to take a #FISC (Field Identification Skills Certificate) this year? FISC = industry standard for assessing botanical ID skills & spaces book up very quickly - but there are a few remaining places on two FISCs run by Hartpury Uni on 25 & 26 June! Find out more: bsbi.org/field-skills

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I am starting a PhD and am looking for grassland restoration/rewilding sites in Northern Ireland! Please forward this flier to anyone who might be interested in having their land surveyed for fungi!

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Male Common Blue butterfly resting after nectaring on buttercups, for #WildWebsWednesday

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When warnings of Insectageddon were issued a few years ago, there was widespread denial. Less so now. It's devastating. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Can you find a wild or naturalised (like the Crown Vetch pictured) member of the Pea Family? That’s the challenge this week from #WildflowerHour. Share your finds for the magic hour this Sunday 8-9pm. Hap(pea) flower hunting! 🫛😀

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Fabulous display of Bee Orchids this year at RAF Valley #Anglesey after I managed to persuade the RAF not to mow the grass verge to allow the Orchids to grow. #Wildflowerhour #orchidchallenge

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Ahead of publication of Urban Plants later this week (5th June), here’s a little celebration of… urban plants! Just need to sort a snazzy outfit for the launch in London www.bloomsbury.com/uk/urban-pla... #wildflowerhour

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Bluebells still flowering in the Yorkshire Dales #WildflowerHour

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1 week to go until Big Meadow Search 2025 gets underway. All welcome, you dont need to be an expert, just record the species you are confident to ID. You can enter data at bigmeadowsearch.co.uk/submit or email your list to [email protected]

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Great Burnet, Muston Meadow, Nottinghamshire #WildFlowerHour

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Loughborough Lammas meadows today, much meadow buttercup, some pignut and many grasses. The burnett and knapweeds were just starting. #wildflowerhour

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Lovely Heath Spotted-orchid (Dactylorhiza maculata) in an established, marshy meadow this week, Leicestershire. #OrchidChallenge #wildflowerhour

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Great morning in Great Stretton with the Leicester Botany Group today, led by Russell Parry & Louise Marsh, much enjoyed by all 🌼🌸 All are very welcome to join - further details incl. field meetings programme for June available at: bsbi.org/leicestershire @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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