Living on the edge - the rare and beautiful #Menai #Whitebeam, Sorbus arvonicola, trees of Nantporth #Nature Reserve @northwaleswt.bsky.social #conservation @treborthbg.bsky.social @fossilplants.bsky.social #woodland #Wales @bsbicymru.bsky.social #WalesCoastalPath

I was thrilled to find a new population of Adelanthus lindenbergianus in the Mám Toirce, Conamara last week. It instantly stood out as being something exciting. Three separate patches found with the help of @timoceallaigh.bsky.social. Thanks to @nimbosaecology.bsky.social for confirming

White Clover, Dún Laoghaire. #wildflowerhour

The blinding #green of Irish Spurge, #Euphorbia hyberna, Bainne caoin, with white sap like milk or bainne - locally common in SW #Ireland, especially Cape Clear, Oileán Chléire #botany #wildflowerhour 😎

I was stopped in my tracks this week by an exquisite double petalled cuckoo flower in Killarney National Park in County Kerry. #WildflowerHour

What an early female Hazel flower! Worth a revisit for @bsbibotany.bsky.social's #NewYearPlantHunt ?😃 ❄️ @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @irishwoodlandtrust.bsky.social @mikekally.bsky.social @cedar-ni.bsky.social #Botany #WinterPlants @irishwildlifetrust.bsky.social

Lus beatha / betony holding on and brightening up a rainy day in #Killarney National Park this week #WildflowerHour

Alder carr near Ross Castle, Killarney

Possible signs of progress at Killarney National Park? This is the Derrycunnihy area of the Park which is being targeted for deer culling and where there are signs of a positive response from the vegetation. Good news...

Fraoch na haon chose / St Dabeoc's Heath brightening up the day in North Connemara in County Galway for #WildflowerHour

Teasel seedheads #seedheads #wildflowerhour #Yorkshire #sunset

Got to be Guelder-rose #fruits as a companies by such gorgeously rusty leaves #wildflowerhour

Rosehips after rain, Co Leitrim. Rose ID is 'thorny', but start with this riddle: Q: Mrs Rose has five sons: two have beards, two don't, and one couldn't decide and has half a beard. A: a dog rose, Rosa canina agg.(look at the lobes on the sepals) @bsbibotany.bsky.social #wildflowerhour #fruits

Caithne / Arbutus #fruit for #WildflowerHour brightening up a rainy day in #Killarney National Park in County Kerry

1st Irish record of the newly described bryophilous ascomycete Endoantria benetecta on its host Lejeunea patens from the temperate rainforest at Correl Glen, West Fermanagh Known only from Scotland & Wales; this marks the first for Ireland - our rainforests support untold diversity #fungifriends

Ailleann Pheadair/ golden samphire, Luibh bhléine/ sea aster along with the tiny Peasair arbhair/ hairy tare #ByTheSea in Rosscarbery County Cork. The raspberry sorbet ice-cream there is well worth it #WildflowerHour

Can I sneak in an Irish plant for #WildflowerHour? The extreme rarity Cottonweed, Achillea (=Otanthus) maritima, from its only British Isles site in dunes in SE Ireland. Incredible silver colour, looks more like a desert plant! One more species to add to namethatplant.org.

Lesser Butterfly Orchid with a background of Heather and Bell Heather in #Galway #wildflowerhour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

A joy to see hocas tae buí/ yellow bartsia in a very wet #Killarney National Park today. Many times I've passed this field and failed to notice #WildflowerHour

Hembra de Amegilla ochroleuca visitando flores de Stachys officinalis para libar néctar, haciendo gala de su vertiginosa velocidad habitual. En promedio se detiene en cada flor un poco menos de un segundo. El polen que lleva cargado es de Hypericum perforatum, que está en flor en los alrededores.

Ivy-leaved Bellflower Wahlenbergia hederacea in the New Forest, Hampshire today. Thankfully, in a shady spot, otherwise these fragile flowers would probably be toast. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Hemp-agrimony, Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal. #hairyplants #wildflowerhour

Lus na Tríonóide / great willowherb in the sunshine in Castleisland, #Kerry for #Hairyplants #WildflowerHour

This Loggerhead Turtle was found by a tourist on Lettergesh beach, Rinvyle today. I collected her & brought her half the way down to Dingle Oceanworld Aquarium who specialise in the rehabilitation of sea turtles. 7th Loggerhead to be found in Ireland this year.🤞for a successful recovery.

Killarney National Park this week, broad leaf helleborine for #HelleborineChallenge #WildflowerHour

Large-scale, illegal commercial extraction of peat is decimating vital ecosystems, according to the Environmental Protection Agency www.rte.ie/news/2025/06...

#foxgloves #flowers #rockery #gardens #ireland

Invasive Alien Species in Europe: "the greatest opportunities to reduce regional species extinction risk by mitigating threats from IAS come from managing feral goats (12.4%), mouflons (8.1%), rabbits (5.3%) and rats (4.6%)." neobiota.pensoft.net/article/1483...

Lesser Marshwort (Apium inundatum) can exist on muddy lakeshores or submerged, but it definitely fit the #AquaticPlants bill today, after all the rain🌧. Tricky to photograph too! Lower leaves are filamentous, like water-crowfoot @wildflowerhour.bsky.social #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Bladder Sedge, Water-pepper, Water-plantain, Lesser Marshwort and Cyperus Sedge: #AquaticPlants at Lough Allen, Co Leitrim this evening @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social #wildflowerhour #LoveLeitrim #wetlandplants @communitywetlands.bsky.social

For #WildflowerHour tonight, aquatic-adjacent #AquaticPlants - bog residents Lesser Butterfly Orchid (Platanthera bifolia or, in Irish: Magairlín beag an fhéileacáin) in Co. Kildare. Do #TráthnamBláth anocht, seo Magairlín Beag an Fhéileacáin, ina chónaí ar an bportaigh i gCo. Chill Dara.

Leser Bladderwort, Utricularia minor, in a Dorset bog. #aquaticplants #wildflowerhour

Another day another Cuckoo! 😀 18 days earlier than last year, Cuach Cores is back in Ireland. 🎉 Discover his migration on our website ➡️ www.bto.org/cuckoos #Ornithology

The tiny Adder's tongue fern in my lawn. #wildflowerhour

Spring Gentian and Mountain Avens in the Burren today #wildflowerhour

Field madder back in flower at @theul.bsky.social. #TinyPlants #WildflowerHour

Russian White-fronted Goose hanging out with feral Greylag Geese on Tumduffbeg Lake, Boora, Co. Offaly today. Probably a county first (?) and only the second I've seen in Ireland. I saw my first ever White-fronted Goose (Greenland) literally on the other side of the road 30 years ago! 😳

Mórán gaelach/ Irish saxifrage on Inis Mór today, a bit late for#WildflowerHour

Today's highlights; the first Irish record of Corncrake for this year as one was flushed close to West Bog, at least 4 Hoopoe still present, Common Redstart, Black Redstart, Tree Pipit and 6 Bramblings. 51 birds ringed included Redwing, Brambling and a ' tristis ' Chiffchaff see photo (JH).

Spring in our little town garden; tawny mining bees, early nomadic bee (I think), lesser celandine, violet, primrose and cowslips.

A selection of woodland flowers from Ardan Wood in Co. Westmeath #wildflowerhour

Slánú fiacal /toothwort starting to flower in Killarney County Kerry this week for #WildflowerHour

The subtle but rather beautiful star-shaped flowers of Hairy Woodrush Luzula pilosa, composed of six deep brown tepals (not #sepals or petals) with a clear margin, encasing greenish anthers and a feathery stigma on a column. An ancient woodland indicator... #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

An ancient woodland indicator, Wood anemone. Why? Because it mainly grows vegetatively and spreads slowly. Every year I take a photo of this same patch. Photos below from 2017 & 2025. @bsbibotany.bsky.social @lgspace.bsky.social @wtscotsocial.bsky.social

Stunning, my best moments with juvenile Dippers were on the Deenagh back in 2016 up by the entrance to lough leane. youtu.be/iqNVSTWR2R

Hymenophyllum tunbrigense (Tunbridge Filmy-Fern), Smyrnium olusatrum (Alexander's) and Prunus spinosa (Blackthorn) this week! @wildflowerhour.bsky.social #wildflowerhour @BSBI_Ireland @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Bainne caoin/ Irish Spurge for #WildflowerHour in Killarney National Park, County Kerry Beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig dhuit! Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Heroic efforts to restore once common breeding lapwing ⬇️.