Smooth-stalked Sedge Carex laevigata and Pale Sedge Carex pallescens. Central Hampshire today. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Early Marsh-orchid Dactylorhiza incarnata var pulchella in white. New Forest, Hampshire. #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Sweet Flag Acorus calamus with its hundreds of tiny flowers. Holmsley, Hampshire. #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Bastard Balm Melittis melissophyllum and Marsh Cinquefoil Comarum palustre. New Forest, Hampshire today. #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Pale Sedge Carex pallescens in the New Forest, Hampshire today. Undoubtedly one of the most attractive sedges 😍. #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

A late Taraxacum ciliare (Channel Islands Dandelion) in the New Forest, Hampshire today. #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

A Pea Trio for #wildflowerhour. Clustered Clover Trifolium glomeratum, Knotted Clover T. striatum, Bird's-foot Clover T. ornithopodioides. Otterbourne, Hampshire. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Fly Orchids before the drizzle. Fire was needed. Eurovision awaits. Central Hampshire. @bsbibotany.bsky.social @ukorchids.bsky.social

Trifolium glomeratum, found on a sandy bank in a meadow on the Isle of Wight. Exquisite flower!

What I'm hoping are seedlings of Ground-pine Ajuga chamaepitys. Seeds collected from a trip abroad last year, where this species was literally everywhere.

Opposite-leaved Pondweed Groenlandia densa, now flowering. A salvaged fragment from an at-risk site has turned into a thriving set of plants in two garden ponds and an old sink. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Garden campions. Sea Campion Silene uniflora, Sticky Catchfly Silene viscaria, Italian Catchfly Silene italica.

Actually, there has been some pea action this week. The sands of Slab Common, Bordon, Hampshire at the start of the week held candy-striped Bird's-foot Ornithopus perpusillus and the ruby red Mossy Stonecrop Crassula tillaea. @bsbibotany.bsky.social #wildflowerhour

Only Carrots for this week's #wildflowerhour. Pignut Conopodium majus and Sanicle Sanicula europaea in Hampshire's Meon Valley today. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Fairy Flax Linum catharticum and Hoary Plantain Plantago media at Martin Down NNR today. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Dwarf Sedge Carex humilis at Martin Down NNR, Hampshire-Wiltshire today. Still not really quite flowering. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

More Field Fleawort Tephroseris integrifolia at Martin Down NNR, Hampshire-Wiltshire today. Spraying has drastically reduced Brachypodium sylvaticum and created bare soils for this, and other species, to germinate. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Marsh Fritillary, Grizzled Skipper, Dingy Skipper, and Small Copper at Martin Down NNR, Hampshire-Wiltshire.

Fly Orchids Ophrys insectifera are well underway here in Hampshire 🤩. @bsbibotany.bsky.social @ukorchids.bsky.social

Spider and Fly. Central Hampshire. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Sword-leaved Helleborine Cephalanthera longifolia in a well-known Hampshire woodland. Plenty in full flower, some even going over. @bsbibotany.bsky.social @ukorchids.bsky.social

Dwarf Sedge Carex humilis yesterday at Martin Down NNR, Hampshire-Wiltshire. Super abundant in the shorter turf (bright green foliage really stands out) but only just coming into flower. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Man Orchids Orchis anthropophora on a Surrey hillside this morning. @bsbibotany.bsky.social @ukorchids.bsky.social

Small-flowered Catchfly Silene gallica. There's a lovely verge in suburban Bordon, Hampshire where a pink-flowered population has persisted for years. They're even on the kerb! @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Tower Mustard Turritis glabra. This is probably the last refuge for this species in Hampshire, the population kept going by annual ground disturbance on a sandy roadside bank. Nr Kingsley, N Hampshire. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

For #wildflowerhour #ButtercupChallenge here's the furriest Buttercup of all, Small-flowered Buttercup Ranunculus parviflorus. Hampshire. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Early Purple Orchids Orchis mascula still looking fab on the slopes overlooking the ancient Grim's Dyke, Martin Down NNR, Hampshire-Wiltshire. @bsbibotany.bsky.social #wildflowerhour @ukorchids.bsky.social

Field Mouse-ear Cerastium arvense. Not a common species at all these days. Martin Down NNR, Hampshire-Wiltshire. @bsbibotany.bsky.social #wildflowerhour

Field Fleawort Tephroseris integrifolia. Delighted to come across decent numbers of this scarce plant today at Martin Down NNR, Hampshire-Wiltshire. Interestingly, these were in an area sprayed to control Tor-grass Brachypodium sylvaticum. @bsbibotany.bsky.social #wildflowerhour

Bastard Balm Melittis melissophyllum, another one of the Sean Bean plants. Two locations in South Hampshire only. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Lovely fresh display of Common Twayblades Neottia ovata found today in Hampshire's Meon Valley. @bsbibotany.bsky.social @ukorchids.bsky.social

Black Bryony Dioscorea communis can easily go overlooked as part of the green tangle of a hedgerow. It's well worth stopping to look closely. Meon Valley, Hampshire. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Bird's-foot Ornithopus perpusillus. Measured in millimetres, this is a tiny treasure of nutrient-poor, usually sandy ground. Otterbourne, Hampshire. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

A lone Fly Orchid Ophrys insectifera in a shady lane nr Exton, Hampshire today. @bsbibotany.bsky.social @ukorchids.bsky.social

Supercharged Painted Ladies all over the place today on Hayling Island, Hampshire. Great to see 🤩

Common Gromwell Lithospermum officinale. Abundant in one area of Stockbridge Down, Hampshire yesterday. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Iffy photo of the year's first Fly Orchid Ophrys insectifera. Sparsholt, Hampshire. @bsbibotany.bsky.social @ukorchids.bsky.social

A surprise find today in an unremarkable bit of amenity green space in Waterlooville, Hampshire: Pignut Conopodium majus. One small patch, with a few Cuckooflower Cardamine pratensis also present. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

False Fox Sedge Carex otrubae on Hayling Island, Hampshire today. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Divided Sedge Carex divisa in brackish basins at North Common, Hayling Island. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Yellow Pimpernel Lysimachia nemorum dotting the floor of wet woodland nr Headley, Hampshire today. @bsbibotany.bsky.social #wildflowerhour

Sanicle Sanicula europaea from a lush wooded lane at Ashley, Hampshire today. @bsbibotany.bsky.social #wildflowerhour

Yellow Archangel Lamiastrum galeobdolon nr Ecchinswell, Hampshire this morning. @bsbibotany.bsky.social #wildflowerhour

Wood Sorrel Oxalis acetosella in a beautiful shady wet woodland near Headley, Hampshire today. @bsbibotany.bsky.social #wildflowerhour

Green-winged Orchids Anacamptis morio in the churchyard at St John the Baptist, Rownhams, Hampshire this morning. @bsbibotany.bsky.social @ukorchids.bsky.social @caringforgodsacre.bsky.social

Small-flowered Buttercup Ranunculus parviflorus is a very hairy beast. Loves the worst ground. Test Valley, Hampshire this morning. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Common Fumitory Fumaria officinalis along Hayling Island's Billy Trail this afternoon. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Subterranean Clover Trifolium subterraneum and Lesser Trefoil Trifolium dubious at Purbrook Heath, Hampshire today. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Little patch of Upright Chickweed Moenchia erecta on the cricket outfield at Purbrook Heath, Hampshire. Acid flora persisting amid modern recreational activities. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Always good to see Bugloss Lycopsis arvensis. Not a common species at all here in Hampshire. Otterbourne, this evening. @bsbibotany.bsky.social