I like to decide what's a weed and what's not. Red clover is good company for peonies and a pot of honey for bees. So it's not a weed.

Unlocking Botanical Keys online session 17th June. Join to discover how botanical keys work, which ones to get started with, cover any tricky questions & boost your confidence. There will be a group exercise to collectively key out a specimen. More info https://ow.ly/4ph850YXwZG

Garden as biodiversity hotspot

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Asa Gray was a 19th-century botanist at Harvard, an early adopter of Darwin’s ideas & the among the first to notice the uncanny resemblance between plants of E. North Amer. and those of East Asia. 📷1: Catalpa bignonioides of ENA. 📷2: C. ovata alooides CCBYNC4 of EA. #Bignoniaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

Follow-up from Florence CETAF59 meeting packed with information. Decided to create internal bulletin in CZ to inspire and inform colleagues. @eurotaxonomy.cetaf.org

Leí a @txaverius.bsky.social que la tenía y puse tambien una Erigeron karvinskianus en la terraza para atraer polinizadores y la verdad es que atrae bastantes .Hoy había un sirfido🌱

Dear #plantscience friends, we're looking to recruit a new colleague at @uni-freiburg.de @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social: a Professor in Plant Biotechnology. 🌱🧪 The @dompsfr.bsky.social community is truly fantastic. Interested? Please share far and wide and join us! uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00005...

Magnolias evolved before bees existed. 95 million years ago, their ancestors shared the planet with the dinosaurs of the Cretaceous, but no bees. So they made a messy partnership with beetles that continues today & it explains why they're such unusual flowering plants. Let's talk about it.

Dnes jsme se vydali k tomuto krasavci. Je to prstnatec májový (Dactylorhiza majalis, 🇬🇧 broad-leaved marsh orchid), ohrožený druh vstavačovité rostliny. Na naší lokalitě u Černého kříže u Adolfova přímo na hranici s Německem jich byly stovky.

@plantlifeuk.bsky.social are running a Small Blue Day this coming weekend in Caithness - sounds like a brilliant event! This #SpeciesOnTheEdge depends on Kidney Vetch, its sole foodplant - a reminder that plant conservation is key to butterfly, invertebrate, bird and mammal conservation...

Help us map Northern Ireland's wild plants! The #BotanicalSkillsNI project is building a community of botanical recorders to support nature recovery. Learn via our webinars: bit.ly/BSBI-NI-Webi... Check out our project and events: bsbi.org/take-part/pr... Let's make every record count!

Remembering Peter H. Raven, a visionary botanist who transformed our understanding of plant diversity. go.nature.com/3Q5Sy9C

Standing with friends under Florence’s 221-year-old cork oak. We really radice for each other! 🌳🇮🇹 This friendship has deep roots and great protection. 💚 @eurotaxonomy.cetaf.org #CETAF59 #Florence #OrtoBotanico

142/365: Lizard #Orchid in Sandwich!

Moonwort, Botrychiem lunaria. One of my favourite plants.

Many Bee orchids in Exeter today 22/5/2026, some going over already, self-pollinated quickly, due to the recent winds. One pale sepaloid just flowering 😃 @orchidvinny.bsky.social @ukorchids.bsky.social

Taxonomie nejsou jen jména. Díky ní zůstávají botanické sbírky srozumitelné, ověřené a živé. Na #TaxonomyRecognitionDay to dnes v Průhonicích ukazuje sbírka kosatců – péče o biodiverzitu i kulturní dědictví. #NameItToSaveIt. O sbírky pečuje Botanický ústav AVČR, v. v. i. @ibotcz.bsky.social

Taxonomy is not only about names. It is also how we keep botanical collections meaningful and alive. On #TaxonomyRecognitionDay, the historic iris collection in Průhonice @ibotcz.bsky.social shows how science helps conserve both biodiversity and cultural heritage. #NameItToSaveIt

Irises have been cultivated for more than 7,000 years — as ornamentals, medicinal plants and even as an ingredient in gin. On #TaxonomyRecognitionDay, our @ibotcz.bsky.social Průhonice iris collection reminds us that caring for plants also means caring for cultural heritage. #NameItToSaveIt.

Ημέρα Αναγνώρισης της Επιστήμης της Ταξινομικής 2026 (Taxonomy Recognition Day - TRD): Ονόμασε το για να το σώσεις! #NameItToSaveIt - Rethemnos Live rethemnos.gr/454388-2/

No clue what a springtail is? Never fret. We've interviewed the UK's national springtail biological recorder and PhD student @jamesimcc.bsky.social . Head to our blog to learn more ⤵️ https://sangerinstitute.blog/2026/03/26/studying-soils-unsung-heroes/ 📸 Tim Jonas #NameItToSaveIt

A bee's brain may be as small as a sesame seed, but it can recognize and remember human faces. Nature never ceases to amaze us. Every tiny creature plays a major role in our world. Protect bees, protect life, protect nature.

🚩Dig into plant functional ecology! Join the 8th Go Belowground! PhD course (13–19 Sep 2026 Czech Republic) 🪴⛏️ #Botany #PlantEcology #RootTraits #BelowgroundTraits #CzechRepublic #EcologyCourse #FunctionalTraits #Anatomy #ExFuMo @ibotcz.bsky.social @czechacademy.bsky.social

Taxonomy helps us protect biodiversity. Without species names, conservation becomes impossible. To celebrate Taxonomy Recognition Day (23 May), we launch #NameItToSaveIt — highlighting taxonomy’s importance for nature. Read the article by Michael Magee 👇 short.do/j7BwtW

🎉 Tomorrow, CETAF kicks off #TaxonomyRecognitionDay at the 8th Knowledge of Chamber! We'll be at the House of European History & Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences talking about taxonomy & @tettris.eu Join our #NameItToSaveIt campaign! 📸🌱 #TRD2026 #Biodiversity

🔥 Demokracie potřebuje spojence. Zelení a Piráti dnes podepsali memorandum o spolupráci do voleb! Spojujeme síly, abychom nabídli skutečně progresivní, odbornou a spravedlivou alternativu pro budoucnost Česka.

Wonderful time now, almost no people, lively nature, long daylight! Sorapis and Antelao this morning. #hiking #nature

Look. At. This. (!). A fungus spore landed on this weevil. Grew inside and caused it to climb to the top of this plant- while the fungus killed it. Consumed its body. Used that energy to shoot up a red fruiting body to release more spores. To zombify more weevils. A mind controlling killer fungus.

🗓️ Save the date: BioAgora's first Science-Policy Interface (SPI) dialogue workshop is set to take place between 1 and 2 October in Ghent, Belgium! 👀 Find out more: bioagora.eu/news/save-da... ✍ Register here: events.pensoft.net/events/bioag... #Biodiversity #ForNature #ForOurPlanet

The garden I inherited from my mum is now more alive than ever! 🦋 By letting it grow a little wild, it’s easing into #permaculture—bugs, birds and fresh blooms are loving it. Thanks, Mum, for the beautiful foundation; nature knows how to flourish on its own. 💚 #wildgarden #biodiversity

A lawn with zero lawn-mower noise? 🍃 At Prague’s Krč Hospital, a flock of mouflon sheep keeps the grass in check. No engines, just the soft jingle of bells. So if you wake up from anesthesia to bleats and tinkling, don’t panic: you’re not in heaven, just the hospital takes #biodiversity seriously. 🐏

The head of our Průhonice Botanical Garden and president of the Union of Botanical Gardens Pavel Sekerka explains why taxonomy is important for botanical gardens. @tettris.eu #nameittosaveit

The glorious Liothula omnivora (also known as the common bag moth), first scientifically described by New Zealand lawyer, entomologist, artist and taxonomist Richard William Fereday in 1878. #NameItToSaveIt #TaxonomyRecognitionDay

It’s Taxonomy Recognition Day! Joining #NameItToSaveIt with a twist: celebrating taxonomists and calling for better funding to keep #taxonomy alive 🔬🦋 Here's some pics of @entomoprofessor.bsky.social in action! She's the coolest and such an inspiration

Naming is just the start — taxonomy is the foundation of biodiversity and conservation research. On #TaxonomyRecognitionDay, let’s #NameItToSaveIt *and fund it* to sustain it! Here you have some pics of @erebiologa.bsky.social in action!

Gagea bohemica subsp. bohemica (křivatec český pravý) botany.cz/cs/gagea-boh... One of the endangered species in Czechia. This specimen grows in Větrušické rokle reserve 💚 And what do you want to name to save it? :) #nameittosaveit @tettris.eu

Corystes cassivelaunus #NameItToSaveIt #Photography

🌿🔬Today's the Taxonomy Recognition Day! ℹ️From the @tettris.eu project, which the iSedge project led by Tamara V., a researcher at the #IICG, is a part of, we're promoting the #NameItToSaveIt movement. 🔍Knowing and naming is the first step to protecting!

Womersleymeria bicornis (Womersley, H, 1940:137) Stach, J, 1949, an springtail endemic to Australia. #NAMEITTOSAVEIT

Today is Taxonomy Recognition Day! We are celebrating this day with a special mission on our Herbonauten platform. Come join us at herbonauten.de/missions/116...! #NameItToSaveIt @eurotaxonomy.cetaf.org @tettris.eu

Today's the Taxonomy Recognition Day! We are very lucky to count on the work by @erebiologa.bsky.social @entomoprofessor.bsky.social and @alexnunez23.bsky.social at the Entomology Collection @universidadoviedo.bsky.social Here: - Bombus terrestris lusitanicus - Arctia villica #NameItToSaveIt

In biological research, taxonomy is absolutely crucial. But it's becoming more and more overlooked. Let's remind ourselves that knowing the species around us is the basis of understanding the nature. Taxonomy matters! 💚 #nameittosaveit

Almost the weekend! Georges the caecilian (Herpele squalostoma) is clearly feeling it too! 🪱 #NameItToSaveIt #Caecilian #Amphibians @smnstuttgart.bsky.social

Today is Taxonomy Recognition Day! This small, elegant moth is Tinagma perdicella Zeller, 1839, a species listed as Near Threatened in Finland. Suitable habitats are diminishing due to the overgrowth of meadows and other open areas, as well as a reduction in burnt forest habitats. #NameItToSaveIt

It's Taxonomy Recognition Day! 🧡💙💚 Our partners are organising events all around Europe: 🇧🇪🇩🇪🇩🇰🇪🇸🇫🇮🇫🇷🇬🇷🇮🇹🇳🇱🇳🇴🇦🇹🇵🇹🇨🇿🇸🇪... You can still help raise awareness about the importance of Taxonomy for Biodiversity and Natural Sciences by participating in the #NameItToSaveIt campaign! 👇 #tettriseu #taxonomy #biodiversity