Some #fungi found this week. Anthracoidea arenariae a smut on Sand Sedge. ?Albugo sp. on a Brassica. Coleosporium senecionis on Narrow Leaved Ragwort #fungifriends

Centaurium in full swing in North West. These are from Sefton coast and North Cheshire #wildflowers @bsbibotany.bsky.social

#Hoya incrassata has aborted its buds the last 2 years. This year I think it will actually bloom. I am really excited to find out what it will look like and how it will smell.

Noticing more moths this year. Not ready to set up a moth trap yet though #ukmoths

From around Liverpool Bay this week for #Wildflowerhour

Kidney Vetch, Parsley Piert, Yellow Rattle and Hop Trefoil current #lawnflowers all from locally collected seed #wildflowerhour

Can’t see any recent records for Knotted Hedge Parsley in Merseyside. Found in the biodiversity hotspot of ‘The Asda’ carpark along with Narrow Leaved Pepperwort #wildflowerhour

Common Mallow and Dwarf Mallow-side by side comparison- both frequent on pavement edges in Wirral #wildflowerhour

Cheerful Button Weed (Cotula coronopifolia) on a traffic island in Wirral. Widely established on the salt marshes of the Dee estuary but my first time seeing it inland #urbanbotany

Bee Orchids starting to flower at Broadgreen Hospital in Liverpool. The mowing regime timing greatly affects numbers. This one is protected in a small planted wildflower area. Best years 60+ spikes found #wildflowerhour

Bee visiting Greater Butterfly Orchid. I presumed they were pollinated by moths #wildflowerhour

Some incidental moths noticed in limestone grassland, Wales #teammoth

Water Avens (Geum rivale) with lots of hybrid (Geum x intermedia) of varying forms in ancient woodland Flintshire #wildflowerhour

Shepherds Cress (Teesdalia nudicaulis) seed heads from above in Denbighshire #wildflowerhour

Hutchinsia (Hornungia petraea) surprisingly still in flower. Tiny with a black ant for scale in Denbighshire #wildflowerhour

Early Purple Orchids in Llangollen #wildflowerhour

Red Campion Anther Smut (Microbotryum silenes-dioicae) in North Wales #fungifriday

This guy was knocking on the window trying to get in last night. The glowing eyes put me off a bit so didn’t invite it in #ukmoths

Two Medicks which I haven’t seen before in North West. Growing on converted landfill site. The seedpods of Toothed Medick made it stand out from the commoner species #wildflowerhour

Tiny Adders Tongue amongst Spring Sandwort in North Wales. My first time seeing this plant #wildflowerhour

Field Mouse-ear (Cerastium arvense) in grass verge has escaped the mowers so far this year. Not very common in the North West #wildflowerhour

My first sighting of Mossy Stonecrop (Crassula tillaea). I think the spiky bits are flowers but too small for my camera. Growing in perfusion on path edges in Beaumaris #wildflowerhour

Blinks (Montia fontana) on dry clifftops in Anglesey. These must be a different subspecies to the ones I see in roadside gutters at home and submerged in mountain streams. The flowers are absolutely tiny #Wildflowerhour

Dunes dotted with tiny bright blue flowers of Early Forget me not (Myosotis ramosissima). Anglesey. #wildflowerhour

Dune pansies (Viola tricolour) with yellow flowers and purple spurs. Heath violets (Viola canina) purple flowers and yellow spurs. From sand dunes in Anglesey. #wildflowerhour

Some plants from Anglesey for #Wildflowerhour

Paphiopedilum flower in kitchen. Flowered prolifically last year over 8 months #orchids

Some fungi from Liverpool and amazing Bog beacons from North Wales this week. #MushroomMonday #fungi

Visit to Eryri to see Saxifraga oppositifolia (Purple Saxifrage) for first time. Was blown away, quite nearly literally #wildflowerhour

A new find for me this week in suburban Wirral. Is this Mediterranean Nettle (Urtica membranacea)? #wildflowerhour

Bog myrtle in North Wales. Some of the wetter valley floors are this amazing warm colour now #wildflowerhour

One of my favourites plants covering a wall in a mossy underpass, Field woundwort on a church wall and some sort of Malva that looked unusual to me. All in urban North Liverpool #wildflowerhour

The cold weather has changed the fruiting fungi. Flammulina, jelly’s and crusts taking over in Arrowe Park, Wirral #fungifriends #mushroommonday

Nice group of Hygrocybe sp. In North East Wales before the frost. Doesn’t look right for coccinea #fungifriends #mushroommonday

Earpick fungi growing on pinecone at Bidston Hill, Wirral. #fungifriends #mushroommonday

Heath Groundsel, White Deadnettle, Wild Basil and Hedgerow Cranesbill in bloom this week #wildflowerhour

Gliophorus sciophanous in a nature reserve NE Wales. Very slimy with some green showing in cap. A relative of the Parrot Waxcap. Not sure what the current thinking is on the taxonomy of this #fungi #fungifriends

Some little brown mushrooms in North Wales. Hodophilus sp. and Psilocybe Fimetaria #fungi

Autumn Gentian and Blue Fleabane flowering at a mild Minera Quarry, Wales. #wildflowerhour

Autumn Gentian flowering at Minera Quarry, Wales this weekend #wildflowerfinder

Recent Waxcap finds in the Wirral, Uk. These #fungi are so charismatic and exciting to come across #fungifriends

Found a second site for Glistening waxcap (Gloioxanthomyces vitellinus) in Wirral churchyard. I usually find this tiny species in longer grass areas of acid uplands #fungifriends #fungi

Eagerly accepting permission to post grassland fungi for #wildflowerhour Hygrocybe Auratiosplendens- Orange waxcap, its cap shiny and Viscid. NE Wales

Arable weeds from the pumpkin field. Radish, Field pansy and 2 species of Fumitory. One with more glaucous leaves and smaller purple flowers ?Common and Common Ramping #wildflowerhour

Small orange squamulous Waxcaps growing in limestone quarry. I think these are H calciphilia, a new species for me, due to the growing conditions #mushroommonday #fungi #fungifriends

Lots of Mouse-pee Pinkgills in a disused Limestone quarry in North Wales. New species for me! #fungifriends #mushroommonday #fungi

Burnet saxifrage, Milkwort, Common Rock rose and a nearly flowering Autumn Gentian showing a hint of purple. Found at Minera Quarry in North Wales #wildflowerhour

Blueing bracket, Lilac Pinkgill, Fairy Fingers and Liberty caps found at weekend in North Wales #fungi #fungifriends

Waxcaps plentiful in North East Wales. Pleased to find some Orange and Toasted waxcaps. As well as first Crimson of year #fungi

I think these are Entoloma conferendum. Pink spore print left by overlapping caps #fungi