Jo Parmenter

Have a look at either dense-flowered or orange mullein - both have the elongated spathulate stigma (vs capitate one of great mullein). My guess is this is orange mullein due to 'blowsy' look of flowers, but if you have pics showing leaf base that should help decide which of the two it is.

Are you, like @nicolaann85.bsky.social, looking at Mulleins & wishing you had some #WildflowerID help?
Ideally a great webinar from somebody like @anaturalistabroad.bsky.social, who really knows his Mulleins? With an intro by @sjthomasbotany.bsky.social?
Here you go:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjaG...

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!
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It is very lovely. Was even worth getting stuck on the A12 for 4 hours on the way home following a chicken lorry catching fire.

What were they eating ?

V broad and pointy scarious margin there ... so maybe 'odd' europaea? ... pretty sure it's europaea agg, anyway. I had some I left as just not sure.

Did you find the S obscura? I didn't see any likely candidates. Sheets more S ramosissima, a handful of europaea ss and a small area with S disarticulata.

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I'm sure you're not alone there... if you go back, let me know and I'll try and get you some high res grids.

Destabilization of Earth system tipping elements - Nature Geoscience A review of observation-based evidence suggests that four interconnected Earth system tipping elements have moved towards their critical thresholds, highlighting the need for better monitoring and increased mitigation efforts.

A new Nature study on the four horsemen of the climate-tipping-points apocalypse: "the Greenland Ice Sheet, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, the South American monsoon system and the Amazon rainforest."

Might have been mentioned already, but plants are really good at staying put for at least a few weeks ....

Yay, congrats to @willgeorge.bsky.social on finding a York Groundsel!
@bsbicountries.bsky.social was hunting for one the other day, but they are hard to find at this time of year.

Very different (once you 'get your eye in') 😊

Book now for our online #NPMS10 celebration event on 18 October: https://ow.ly/rNw750X4fAH Talk by @bsbicountries.bsky.social on why collecting botanical data is important for other organisations. This event is hosted by @bsbibotany.bsky.social, 1 of 4 @npms.bsky.social partners.

A trip up the road to Port Meadow, Oxford today. Stumbled on the marvellous Mudwort Limosella aquatica: easily hundreds, likely thousands. Also, might the orange blob in the last image be a fungal growth? @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Yes please!!

That could work - what time and when - did you want to share a car?

@norfolkponds.bsky.social a (possibly impossible) challenge for you!!

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Red bistort

Red bistort

Red bistort escaped into a road edge on yesterday's Norfolk Flora group meeting @bsbibotany.bsky.social #wildflowerhour

Looked this up an hour or so ago - ours was only the 4th record for west Norfolk.

One of thousands of corn spurry seen on yesterday's Norfolk Flora group meeting @bsbibotany.bsky.social #wildflowerhour

Hmm - I think marigold petals are edible... there's an idea for next year!

Never caught it in flower - maybe next year... or the one after.

Leersia oryzoides (Cut Grass) 😍 First plant in the BSBI handbook, has always felt like a bit of a mythical species. I finally made the trip down to meet this incredible plant at Amberley Wildbrooks last week. #wildflowerhour

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

Life expectancy was 60.

And it's "LEICESTER" you gormless idiot.

Ah well - we still had 'fun'. We'll forget the driving rain and wind and just remember the glorious Bistorta amplexicaule :)

A beet field in NW Norfolk under a wide, grey, windy sky.

The landscape, lacking in shelter - winds horizontal, rain lashing, leaves turned inside out. Summer's last flowers fading. Winter wheat scurrying. Beets fattening their feet in clay. Rooks and gulls whirled away.
Miles to walk.

An unexpectedly floriferous arable edge in Oxfordshire with plentiful Round-leaved and Sharp-leaved Fluellen (Kickxia spuria & K. elatine), along with Small Toadflax, Scarlet Pimpernel, Field Madder, Treacle-mustard and much else.