BSBI Botany

Huge thanks to everyone who shared their lovely plant pix, lots of #SignsofSpring for tonight's #WildFlowerHour!
Have a great week & remember to keep an eye out for the next @wildflowerhour.bsky.social weekly challenge set by @botanybeck.bsky.social!

The wonderful puff of Yew Tree Pollen #LordAncrumsWood #NewBattleAbbeyCollege #SignsofSpring #WildFlowerHour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social @bsbiscotland.bsky.social

Sweet Violet

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Gorgeous hellebores today - my favourite winter flower #WildflowerHour

Grape hyacinth growing as a 'street weed' along Mount Ephraim, TW #wildflowerhour

Yellow tinted catkins of Goat Willow against a background of scrub, sky and lake

Sunlit sulphur yellow #SignsOfSpring amongst the twigs of the lakeside Goat Willow. #WildflowerHour

Green Hellebore for @haggewoods.bsky.social

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Common Field-speedwell, Sweet Violet, Hazel, Sticky Mouse-ear, Annual Wall Rocket?, Cherry Plum blossom, Alexanders with pollinator, Willow, Lesser Celandine, Common Whitlowgrass

So many lovely flowers out now - spoilt for choice for #SignsOfSpring.

I was thrilled to see Sweet Violets today, a firm spring favourite.
Also loving the small, delicate flowers of Common Whitlowgrass in the verges
& I always enjoy Alexanders, invariably adorned with pollinators.
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Primrose

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Blackthorn (I think). Trumper's Field 08/03/26

Blackthorn (I think). River Brent 08/03/26.

Hogweed. River Brent 08/03/26.

Sweet Violet. Trumper's Field 08/03/26.

#SignsofSpring in the Brent River Park in West London.

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Lovely Wood Anemone, (aka Windflower), Anemone nemorosa, among the Daffodils at Lesnes Abbey Woods. #WildflowerHour #SignsOfSpring

Lesser Celandine is a variable plant - these growing over rocks on Rusthall Common have unusually long flower stalks #wildflowerhour

Grape-hyacinth, Muscari neglectum, by a fence around an electricity sub-station in #Cambridge. May have been introduced with grape vines in an adjacent allotment.
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Primrose, Birdseye speedwell and Dogs mercury thrusting through the soil and pushing the ribbons of tarmac around #Spott #EastLothian #SignsofSpring #WildFlowerHour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social @bsbiscotland.bsky.social

Summer Snowflake in two spots on Rusthall Common, one with Common Gorse & one with garden daffodils #wildflowerhour

The north-west corner of VC34 (West Glos) shining with the light of a million suns. #SignsofSpring #Wildflowerhour

White violets with purple spur.

I think this was a little group of white sweet (?) violets in a nature reserve. There is a slight purple seen at the edge of one petal here. #WildflowerHour

One of many Small Nettles today from an arable field edge, some with flowers in their axils. Near Perranporth for #wildflowerhour

Urtica urens

I know I posted a pic earlier in the week, but I couldn't get enough of the Common Whitlowgrass on the walls of Tonbridge Castle. #SignsOfSpring #wildflowerhour #KentNature

A golden carpet of daffodils glowing in the sunshine at St Gregory & St Martin Church in Wye, Kent. Not native, but still a glorious #SignsOfSpring 🌼
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Lesser Chickweed in flower #WildflowerHour - the little white bit sticking out is the stigma which tells us it's in flower!
Habitat is amongst the sparse mown vegetation (it's the pale green bits) of a road verge next to a car-park in central Middlesbrough.

Hornbeam catkins in a hedge by a #Cambridge P&R #WildflowerHour #SignsOfSpring

A Lesser Periwinkle flower and emerging leaves

Some hedgerows have been cut back, which has allowed more Lesser Periwinkle to emerge #WildflowerHour

delicate flowers beautifully exposed by appearing before the leaves. This was in Knightswood Park, Glasgow, in the first week of March

Wych elm is fairly common in Southern Scotland. It's flowers are pretty but it's leaves are beautiful. This is in Knightswood Park, Glasgow

Pretty but prickly, gorse produces plenty of little yellow flowers

Yellow flowers... it has to be a legume, right?

for #wildflowerhour: cherry plum, wych elm, gorse and gorse. At last there are signs of spring in #Glasgow. Winter has seemed so long but at last the grass is growing and flowers appear...

The years Kale is coming through on the shore 🌊🥬 #WildflowerHour

A single pink flowered Red Dead-nettle amongst purple and white flowered Sweet Violets against a backdrop of urban amenity grassland a clump of yellow Daffodils a bench and trees.

#SignsOfSpring underneath the “Residents Parking Only” sign. Red Dead-nettle out-sprung by purple flowered Sweet Violet which in turn is out-sprung by white flowered Sweet Violet, Viola odorata var dumetorum. #WildflowerHour

Cutleaf deadnettle at a field's edge in brilliant spring sunshine (3/03/26, Corbridge, Northumberland) #wildflowerhour

Coltsfoot at RSPB Broadwater Warren #wildflowerhour

Common field speedwell on a roadside verge.
3 March, Corbridge
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The first Wood anemones-Anemonoides nemorosa in flower on a sunny bank #Wildflowerhour