A lovely day yesterday seeing some of my favourite waxcaps 🥰 It was wonderful to see them again even though some weren’t looking quite their best because of the recent dry weather. Also saw Earthy, Snowy, Slimy, Blackening, Golden & Pale. 17 waxcaps in a day is not bad!! #FungiFriday #MushroomMonday

I'm delighted that we have a whole range of talks from our Northern Ireland Botanical Skills Project taking place this winter on Tuesday evenings. Want to learn more about conifers? Rushes? Clubmosses? Hawthorns? Plant Pathogenic Fungi? ROBOTS?? See them all here: bsbi.org/botanical-sk...

Dandelion, Yarrow, Ladies Bedstraw, Herb Robert, Common Toadflax & Common Knapweed seen in a local churchyard this week. #WildflowerHour

Autumnal shades of Catsear, Buttercup, Daisy and Hawthorn berries. #WildflowerHour

Want to up your #WildFlowerID game this winter? We just launched our Winter Webinar programme! 7-8pm, every Tuesday from 4 Nov - 10 Feb. Thanks to funding from @daera-ni.gov.uk, these 10 great plant ID webinars are FREE for all of you to attend! Programme & booking links: bsbi.org/botanical-sk...

Papery Carline Thistle (Carlina vulgaris) always looks spectacular, even when it's gone over (hmm, it always looks a bit like it's gone over!) Lots on the dunes at #Strandhill, #CoSligo @bsbibotany.bsky.social @organicbotanic.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social #wildflowerhour #seedheads (just!)

Lovely to spot Red Campion and Wood Avens flowering in the woods, providing an autumnal food source for pollinators. #wildflowerhour

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What wonderful news, and what a wonderful plant! Holly Fern is the best fern 😍

Registration for this fantastic event closes tomorrow, Sun 28th! Please share widely. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

On the castle walls. Castle Acre, Norfolk, yesterday. Common Calamint and Common Ragwort still in flower. Rosebay Willowherb on the castle mound. #WildFlowerHour

Well done @ka7enj.bsky.social on finding Slender Tare, new for Leicestershire! #WildFlowerHour

Yarrow, Common Knapweed and Hogweed still flowering this week along rural verges, Leicestershire. #wildflowerhour

It’s Sunday and it’s 8pm so it must be time for #WildflowerHour! 🥳 Please share your pics of the wild and naturalised blooms you’ve spotted from across Britain and Ireland in the last week!

Great opportunity. Please share/repost with anyone with a botany, ecology or environmental science qualification! #botany #wildflowerhour #science #ecology

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

I hadn’t seen it for a couple of years so it was extra special in early June to catch up with my #FavouritePlant! The gorgeous Mertensia maritima, commonly named Oysterplant, as the leaves taste like the fruits of the sea! Caithness #Wildflowerhour

A highlight this year was these beautiful Harebell (Campanula rotundifolia L.) in acid grassland, a species in strong decline due to drivers such as habitat loss and nitrogen deposition. #FavouritePlant #wildflowerhour

The #BigButterflyCount results are in and it's official... 2025 was an average year for butterflies. See the full results and what can be done to help butterflies and moths 👇 https://butterfly-conservation.org/big-butterfly-count-results-2025

For the last weekly challenge, we want to know what was your favourite plant that you’ve spotted from across Britain and Ireland this year? Share your pics for #wildflowerhour this Sunday 8-9pm using the hashtag #favouriteplant and we’ll celebrate it with you! 🥳🌿🌸

We invite all #BSBImembers & supporters to take part in our 2025 survey & help inform our future direction! All responders receive a 60% discount code on our eBooks until the end of September & there's a prize draw to win a year's free membership. Start the survey: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

The utterly ridiculous seed pods of Yellow Horned Poppy, Glaucium flavum, at Rye Harbour. One plant still had a flower tenaciously hanging on in there. #Wildflowerhour #SeedHeads

For the #seedheads challenge for #wildflowerhour Strawberry Clover, Trifolium fragiferum. Seed pod is enclosed by the swollen, downy, net-veined calyx tube

Hedge Woundwort and Meadowsweet #SeedHeads in Leicestershire this week. #wildflowerhour

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!

I attempted a 🌈 of #Fruits for this week's #WildFlowerHour challenge 🙂 I'm not 100% sure they're technically all "wild", but I needed the colours... 😅 Names in ALT text.

Sloes, elderberries and blackberries all from the same hedge. Found within about 5 yards of one another. And haws from a second hedge. #wildflowerhour #fruit

🍒💞🐝🌸🌿 #Fruits for #WildflowerHour Holly berries, Elderberries, Wild Rose hips 🌱 @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

Lots of Autumn Gentian in flower although many of the plants were very small, and occasionally a very pale blue one #WildflowerHour

#Wildflowerhour #fruits Blackberries, fruit of Bramble, Rubus fruticosus agg have been eaten since Neolithic times. Here on a woodland ride near Monmouth.

Crab apples and Hawthorn berries in Leicestershire today for #wildflowerhour #fruits challenge.

It’s looking a bit like autumn! Plump, luscious fruits are brightening the hedgerows like vibrant jewels, beautiful, but can you identify them? This week find the fruits of wild plants, snap away & post your lovely pics for #wildflowerhour this Sunday 8-9pm using #fruits 🍒

First time ever seeing this absolute stunnerrr in Cumbria today - few-flowered sedge (Carex pauciflora)! A specialist of blanket mires and poor fens, this lil beastie can be found at <15 places in England where it’s red-listed Near-Threatened 🌱❤️

Morina persica Caprifoliaceae Sepidan, Iran April, 2200m

Can you find a flowering member of the Gentian family or Gentianaceae, that’s the challenge this week. Post your finds for #WildflowerHour this Sunday 8-9pm using the hashtag #GentianFamily. Happy flower hunting!

We just published a new issue of #BritishandIrishBotany, our Open Access online journal. 7 papers for you to enjoy inc Lady's-slipper orchid reintroductions; variation in Restharrows; a new Comfrey hybrid for UK; montane plants; sea-grapes new to Europe! bsbipublicity.blogspot.com/2025/08/brit...

Patches of Heather and Yellow-horned Poppy (& much more) at Browndown and lovely knitted flowers at Salterns! #WildflowerHour

For #WildflowerHour #DaisyFamily Creeping Thistle was still flowering in a local meadow and spreading its fluffy seeds everywhere too! This flower was being enjoyed by Sphaerophoria scripta hoverfly (Common Twist-tail) that I don't see often! 📷 🌿 #Nature #Photography #NativePlants #BloomScrolling

Insect-magnet Fleabane photo-bombed by hornet mimic hoverfly, Volucella zonaria, at Castle Water, East Sussex.💛 #DaisyFamily @bsbibotany.bsky.social @sussexwildlife.bsky.social #wildflowerhour #UKwildlife #Sussexwildlife

#Wildflowerhour #DaisyFamily Hemp-agrimony, Eupatorium cannabinum on the edge of a woodland ride near Monmouth.

For #wildflowerhour #daisychallenge from the asteraceae family ragwort - Senecio Jacobaea & yarrow Achillea millefolium (sorry none of the leaves were in the pic)

A couple of lovely plants from the #DaisyFamily spotted on today's Leicester Botany Group meeting - Chicory (introduced) and Sticky Groundsel. #wildflowerhour

It’s late summer and the Asteraceae or daisy family are looking just splendid. Perfect for this week’s #WildflowerHour! See if you can find one & share your pics this Sunday evening 8-9pm using the hashtag #DaisyFamily. Happy Asteraceae hunting!

#wildflowerhour mint moth, species of ermine moth and common blue butterfly.

For #wildflowerhour and a celebration of pollinators (as a bonus in this case) A ladybird on sea lavender in Norfolk yesterday

Bumblebee visiting the knapweed and a green veined white butterfly visiting the red campion in Chopwell woods, #PollinatorPals for this weeks #WildflowerHour

Hemp Agrimony flowers #Wildflowerhour

Perforate St John's-wort attracting many pollinators, including this hoverfly. #PollinatorPals #wildflowerhour