As days become longer and warmer our urban flora is beginning to gather steam. Here’s Common Whitlowgrass (Erophila verna) growing - as it so often does - on a bed of moss on a pavement #UrbanPlants
Whether it’s a first Lesser Celandine flower of the year or Elder leaves unfurling. The first #WildflowerHour challenge of the year is to spot #SignsOfSpring! Share your finds this Sunday 8-9pm. Below is the link if you would like to record your #NaturesCalendar sightings ⬇️ @bsbibotany.bsky.social
Marsh Clubmoss (Lycopodiella inundata) shoots creeping across a wet, bare substrate. The shoots are bottle-brush like, bright yellow-green with narrow, untoothed leaves sticking out from the main stem.
A series of Marsh Clubmoss shoots criss-crossing the flush, looking like a group of yellow-green centipedes running across the muddy ground
**BREAKING NEWS** - Marsh Clubmoss refound in Dunbartonshire, at a site where it was last recorded in 1854!
Being more-or-less evergreen, clubmosses make great botanical targets all year round. With that in mind, I set out to hunt for Marsh Clubmoss near Inveraran on the shore of Loch Lomond 🧵
So nice to see that I've put 3 pics @wildflowerhour.bsky.social . Coltsfoot at #AshlawncuttingLNR ,Rugby
Newly flowering this week, lesser celandine, honesty, chickweed and cherry plum #WildflowerHour
Lesser celandine - a little ray of sunshine on a steep, wet bank, caught between showers. #Wildflowerhour
A lovely winter 10!
Golden flowers of Opposite-leaved Golden-saxifrage (Chrysosplenium oppositifolium) growing in moist soils of ancient woodland, Leicestershire.
Dog's Mercury (Mercurialis perennis) in flower in ancient woodland, Leicestershire.
Opposite-leaved Golden-saxifrage and Dog's Mercury flowering in ancient woodland. #wildflowerhour
It’s Sunday & it’s 8pm, so woohoo, it’s time for #wildflowerhour! 🎉Can’t wait to see what you’ve found this week! Please share your pics of the wild & naturalised blooms you’ve spotted from across Britain & Ireland in the last week!
Succisa pratensis, Devils-bit Scabious, NT, (Near-threatened) on the England Red List
In December, the UK Government rejected all of the recommendations made by the UK’s statutory nature conservation bodies in its response to the Seventh Quinquennial Review of Schedules 5 and 8 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (QQR7).
Parnassia palustris, VU on the England Red List
Stroh, P.A., Leach, S.J., August, T.A., Walker, et al 2014. A Vascular Plant Red List for England. Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland, Bristol.
It’s official!
The 'Urban Flora of Newcastle and North Tyneside' will be published on Monday 9 March 🌿 📖
I’m hugely proud of this, and ever so grateful to @nenature.bsky.social and @bsbibotany.bsky.social for their support in making it happen. #botany #urbanflora
Leicestershire and Rutland County Recorder Conference 2026
Leicestershire and Rutland County Recorder Conference 2026
Saturday 28.02.2026
Learn more: www.naturespot.org/node/264611
#Leicester #Leicestershire #Rutland #environment #nature
Reminder that the deadline to apply for this great role as BSBI Wales Officer is midnight on Monday 23 February.
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Clusters of snowdrops in flower on a sunny day, with trees in the background.
Male catkins of Hazel in flower.
Lovely scenes of Snowdrops and Hazel flowering this week, Leicestershire. #wildflowerhour
Narrow-leaved Lungwort, Pulmonaria longifolia, at a local rewilding site a few years ago & possibly the best blue in the world.
Young man sitting in field with plant ID books, recording wild flowers in the sunshine
Can you find, identify & record 100 wild plants in 2026?
BSBI is confident that (with our support) yes, you can!
Beginner botanists, will you accept the challenge?
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Today @bsbibotany.bsky.social is delighted to be at the launch of the 2025 RACE report.
We're proud to join 137 environmental NGOs submitting diversity data (8, like us, submitting data for the 1st time).
Find out more & download the report:
www.race-report.uk/report/diver...
Huge congrats to @joshual951.bsky.social & @turnershbo.bsky.social, looks like their 6 years of hard work protecting Hoylake's rare plants has paid off!
Joshua & Jane gave a talk about their work at #BIBConf23
Check out the video of their talk:
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Something new to photograph this week! The first primroses and snowdrops open for #wildflowerhour. Such a delight to see them 🥰
10 wild plants in bloom
This week’s #TheWinter10 feels like Spring is on its way. 😊 Stinking Hellebore, Hazel, Snowdrops, Yarrow, White Deadnettle, Ragwort, Daisy, Winter Aconite, Primrose & Red Deadnettle
#WildflowerHour
Tonight we've been enjoying a fascinating Winter Talk by @yoselin.bsky.social about her research in plant sciences & her role in @blackinplantsci.bsky.social.
We're recording the talk & it will be available soon on our YouTube channel.
Check out blackinplantscience.org, let's amplify & celebrate!
At Black in Plant Science celebrating excellence is one of main pillars. So if you would like to apply or nominate anyone, applications are now open. We are looking for Black Heritage Early Career Researchers, if this is you, or someone you know, then please don't hesitate to apply! buff.ly/RrP7DM9
I'm really looking forward to tonight's @bsbibotany.bsky.social Winter Talk, where Yoselin Benitez Alfonso, Prof. in Interdisciplinary Plant Sciences, Univ. of Leeds, will be talking about her work as the founder of the network ‘Black in Plant Science’. Book at: www.tickettailor.com/events/botan...
Are you planning to undertake a project in 2026 which involves collecting plant-related data?
Would you like <£1,000 towards your costs?
Apply for a #BSBIPlantStudyGrant!
Here's how:
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Read how a #BSBIGrant helped Katherine research ancient meadows:
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A reminder about this free talk next Tuesday! If you are looking for a new group to record this year plant pathogens are a great choice!
#FungiFriends
White Cow parsley flowers against a blurred green background.
Cow parsley in Ely. #WildflowerHour
Meadow Buttercup, Ranunculus acris, on a grassy road verge on Hayling Island. 💛 #WildflowerHour
