BSBI Botany

Yes! That slide is coming up tomorrow ;-)

Brits talk about 'pushing up the daisies' when we end our days but did you know that in Polish, it's 'smelling the flowers from underneath'!
This #FreeWillsMonth, we encourage you to consider what you can leave to loved ones, including a future for our wildflowers in the years ahead.

📢 Science Communication Seminar

📅 Tues 17 March 12-1pm

💻 Online

@amandatuke.bsky.social - Wild Pavements: Exploring Britain’s Cities with an Urban Naturalist

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The first wild plum to flower in SE London is this one - Cherry or Myrobalan Plum (Prunus cerasifera) - native of the Balkan Peninsula but now widely naturalised in Britain. #blossom #pavementplants #urbanplants #WildPavements #streettrees

An early 7 am vist yesterday to the Tower mustard site at Bromsberrow heath me Brian Laney and Tim Rich have been keeping habitat open with seasonally opening up bare soil areas the last few years ,various rossettes showing nicely,always good to natter along to each other as we work.

A cluster of whitish flowers surrounded by broad, pale whitish-green leaf-like bracts. On bare ground by a wooded river

Mid-green, three part lobed leaves, forming a mat of frilly shapes in grassland

Narrow bright green leaves, with toothed margins, blunt tips, incipient pairs of leaflets at the base, and a reddish-green petiole. On a river bank

**QUIZ ALERT**
Basal rosettes! New in Spring or overwintering leaves, they're everywhere... but can you identify them?!

Test yourself on these six beauties, spotted in the last week 😍

Coltsfoot Tussilago farfara has unexpectedly appeared under the rhubarb in the garden. Also a Peacock nectaring on Primrose. Well and truly spring today here in central Hampshire. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Wood Anemones were responding to the early March sunshine in many Dorset Hazel coppices today.
Just wonderful.
#Dorset #Spring #Nature
@bsbibotany.bsky.social

You're already in there 🥰

Beautiful forget me nots with their easy way for pollinators to see if there is any food left!

#TuesdayBlue A local wander when I got home yesterday saw lots more forget-me-nots in flower, already they have had visitors! Even through the raindrops you can see 3 of the flowers have lost their yellow pollen ring @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social #bloomscrolling #DailyFlowers

Opposite Leaved Golden Saxifrage in flower today (Mar 3) #CuerdenValleyPark Lancashire @plantlifeuk.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Brits talk about 'pushing up the daisies' when we end our days.
In Polish, it's 'smelling the flowers from underneath' & in Spanish, it's 'raising mallows'!
This #FreeWillsMonth, we encourage you to consider what you can leave to loved ones, including a future for our wildflowers in the years ahead.

Urban botany at its sweetest!

Sweetly fluffy flowers of Great Woodrush (Luzula sylvatica) just starting to emerge after a few mild days at #Hazelwood, #Sligo @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social #wildflowerhour #WBYeats @irishwoodlandtrust.bsky.social @irishwildlifetrust.bsky.social #wildatlanticway

3 days until publication of 'Wild Pavements - Exploring Britain's Cities with an Urban Naturalist' on 5 March. I've kept a record of each step as a #1stBookDiary in 7 chapters, and I'm planning to share one each day before 'P-day'. #writing #creativewriting #naturewriting #urbannature #nonfiction

Rustyback Fern Asplenium ceterach on a 19th century brick wall. It has pinnately-divided, tongue-shaped leaves growing as a tuft.

Rustyback Fern growing next to Wall-rue Fern on a brick wall.

Out recording Spring flower activity today at Bungay (Suffolk) @wildflowersociety.bsky.social. Agreeable company with impressive skill-set. My top find was Rustyback Fern (Asplenium ceterach) - not much of a flower but a first for me.

Cherry plum (Prunus cerasifera) in full white bloom at Little Paxton today. Noticed marked variation, this specimen had flowers with very short anthers, and petals distinctly more pointed than others. Given how widely the species is planted, perhaps there’s been some crossing with cultivated forms.

This plant used to be used to flavour beer! Not sure I'd fancy drinking that, though ;-)

Great to see so many much-loved wildflowers coming into bloom again, now Spring is here. At last!
Huge thanks to everyone who shared pix for #WildFlowerHour tonight.
Remember to keep an eye on @wildflowerhour.bsky.social to see what the 1st challenge of 2026, set by @botanybeck.bsky.social, will be!

Primroses, hedge bedstraw, ivy, grass, leaf litter - in the bank of a hedgerow, Dartmoor, Devon

Primroses, hedge bedstraw, ivy - bank of a hedge #Dartmoor #Devon #WildflowerHour

Collage of three flower photos. Clockwise from left: Cherry Plum, Willow flower, small Danish Scurvy Grass plant with flower

Definite signs of Spring for #wildflowerhour today 🙌 😍 Cherry Plum blossom, Willow flower and Danish Scurvy Grass.

@bsbibotany.bsky.social Foind a plant today thst was new to me Alexander I think

Greek Squill naturalised for many years on Tunbridge Wells Common #wildflowerhour

With the mild weather, more and more flowers are popping up — like my first lesser celandine, dandelion, Primrose, Cornelian cherry, Fingered speedwell, and Wall speedwell.

Thanks to #WildflowerHour for this fab #TheWinter10 — I really enjoyed it! 😄

Gorse in flower by a roadside

Daisies in flower

A dandelion

Celandine

Lots of daffodils and trees in flower in streets and gardens here in #Harrow but candidates for #wildflowerhour not so much. Still managed to find some, yellow definitely colour of the week.

Three cornered leek, danish Scurvygrass, Blackthorn, daisy, cow parsley, common chickweed and shepherds purse

I also found 7 species of white flowering plants (out of my 25 for #thewinter10).

Loving the Blackthorn blossom particularly. And two clumps of Danish Scurvygrass - a healthy patch (top middle) looking lush, and a purple coloured plant growing on a wall (presumably under stress).

#wildflowerhour

Common Storksbill starting to flower on Tunbridge Wells Common #wildflowerhour

Hairy Bittercress, Cardamine hirsuta, with the flowers thankfully open in the sunshine, which makes it so much easier to count the four stamens! This was in the Sainsbury's (other supermarkets are available) car park. #WildflowerHour

Lesser Celandine putting in an appearance today in Melksham, Wiltshire. Not in abundance yet, but good to see it back with a promise of spring. #wildflowerhour

The misnamed Summer Snowflake in its regular spot on Tunbridge Wells Common #wildflowerhour