Coming soon: 'Wild Roses of Great Britain and Ireland'. This latest title, no.26 in the series of #BSBIHandbooks for tricky plant groups, has just gone to the printers! Available for #BSBImembers to pre-order now at the discount price of £16 (vs RRP £25). Sample pages here: bsbi.org/bsbi-handboo...

Some fungi from a walk in the woods this morning.

Sanfoin, Onobrychis viciifolia #favouriteplant #wildflowerhour

Lots of Heathers; Ling, Cross-leaved, Bell, Cornish, Dorset & the hybrid between Dorset & Cross-leaved, Erica watsonii, I can't pick just one #favouriteplant for #wildflowerhour

Wood Anemone, Anemone nemerosa, a #favouriteplant in the village woods in Spring #wildflowerhour

Herb Paris, Paris quadrifolia, in a local woodland #wildflowerhour #favouriteplant

Pale Dog Violet, Viola lactea, on a Dorset heath #wildflowerhour #FavouritePlants

Bastard Toadflax, Thesium humifusum, on the Dorset Downs #wildflowerhour #FavouritePlants

Nordic Bladderwort, Utricularia stygia, in a bog in Dorset #wildflowerhour #FavouritePlants

Yellow Bird's Nest, Monotropa hypopitys, in another nearby woodland #FavouritePlants #Wildflowerhour

Starved Wood Sedge, Carex depauperata, in a nearby woodland this summer #FavouritePlants #Wildflowerhour

Shaggy Soldier, Galinsoga quadriradiata #wildflowerhour

Storksbill, Erodium cicutarium #wildflowerhour

Water Chickweed, Stellaria aquatica #wildflowerhour

Water Mint, Mentha aquatica #wildflowerhour

Marsh Woundwort, Stachys palustris #wildflowerhour

Gypsywort, Lycopus europaeus #wildflowerhour

Gallingale, Cyperus longus #wildflowerhour

Water Plantain, Alisma plantago-aquatica, still flowering in the ditches of Wareham Common yesterday #wildflowerhour

Water Forget-me-not, Myosotis scorpiodies, in the ditches of Wareham Common #wildflowerhour

Ragged Robin, Silene flos-cuculi, Wareham Common yesterday #wildflowerhour

Sneezewort, Achillea ptarmica, Wareham Common #wildflowerhour

Nodding Bur-marigold, Bidens cernua, from a Dorset Flora Group meeting yesterday at Wareham Common. #wildflowerhour

This looks amazing

Some wildflowers have seed heads that are truly spectacular! The challenge this week is to find some and then share your lovely pics for #WildflowerHour this Sunday 8-9pm using the hashtag #SeedHeads! Any wild or naturalised blooms you find too are of course always welcome!

Silver Birches at Arne.

Marsh Gentian, Gentiana pneumonanthe #wildflowerhour #GentianFamily

Tufted Vetch, Vicia cracca #wildflowerhour

Mentha aquatica, Water Mint, flowering on a verge in the village today #wildflowerhour

Marsh Gentians, Gentiana pneumonanthe, in good numbers on a wet heath in Dorset yesterday. #wildflowerhour #GentianFamily

Oblong-leaved Sundew, Drosera intermedia, on a Dorset heath yesterday morning.

The inglorious 12th tomorrow. On the left the devastation of a driven grouse moor on the right an alternative vision 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🌳

A cyanotype I made yesterday in the garden.

Fern cyanotypes made in the garden today.

A charm of Goldfinches in a local field.

A mesmerizing time-lapse of the Sun in ultraviolet light, captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft over the course of a month.

A few arable weeds in the fields of north Dorset today: Small Toadflax, Chaenorhinum minus, Corn Mint, Mentha arvensis, Cornflower, Centaurea cyanus, Field Madder Sheradia arvensis, Scarlet Pimpernel, Lysimachia arvensi), Common Toadflax, Linaria vulgaris and Common Field Speedwell,Veronica persica.

Marsh Gentians, Gentiana pneumonanthe, at a Dorset heath.

Dorset Heath, Erica ciliaris.

Yellow Bartsia, Common Cow-wheat, Allseed & Common Cudweed that I forgot to post for #wildflowerhour on Sunday.

The image for this week’s #wildflowerhour challenge post is one from W. Keble Martin’s classic wildflower guide, The Concise British Flora in Colour. Isn’t it a beauty? There’s some very lovely members of the Lamiaceae or #DeadNettlefamily can you find one for #wildflowerhour this Sunday 8-9pm?

The carnivorous Lesser Bladderwort, Utricularia minor, in a bog pool on a Dorset heath. #wildflowerhour

Dodder, Cuscuta epithymum, parasitising the Heather on a Dorset heath. #wildflowerhour

Corn Marigold, Glebionis segetum, from an outing with the Dorset Flora Group yesterday. #wildflowerhour

My favourite encounter this week and the trickiest plant to find, Yellow Centaury, Cicendia filiformis on a Dorset heath #wildflowerhour

Harebell, Campanula rotundifolia, on the downland down the lane. #wildflowerhour #HarebellChallenge

Scarlet Pimpernel, Lysimachia arvensis, growing along a track in Wareham Forest. #wildflowerhour

Sharp-leaved Fluellen, Kickxia elatine, scrambling in the tracks on the Purbeck heaths. #wildflowerhour

A Scarlet Pimpernel, Lysimachia arvensis, on a sandy path through the heath today.