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Great take on my Marsh Clubmoss find, by Scotland’s Poet Lycopodiate - thanks Ben! 🥰

What an exciting find!🐉🎉

We're lucky to have Marsh Clubmoss in a few scattered places in #Ireland. This primitive peatland plant likes having more than just its feet wet!
Read on to find out about this Scottish discovery...
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This little fellow just brings me so much joy!

Coltsfoot (Tussilago farfara) in Co. Kerry - one of my favourite signs of spring.

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White Cherry Plum flowers with yellow anthers on a green twig against the back drop of a remnant laid hedge with a stake and binding visible.

Over the past week one rain soaked Cherry Plum flower became one amongst many. #WildflowerHour

Lungwort (Pulmonaria officianalis) #wildflowerhour

Small flowers of Scurvy Grass

Two Greater Periwinkle flower buds

On the last #TheWinter10 I got TEN! On #Rathlin #Island Shepherd's Purse, Scurvy Grass, Valerian, 3 Cornered Leek, Greater Periwinkle, Lesser Celandine, Herb Robert, Daisy, Speedwell, Blackthorn
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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

Clockwise from top left: Eastern Cyclamen, Common Chickweed, Daisy, Colt's-foot, White Dead-nettle, Sweet Violet, Field Forget-me-not, Dandelion, Field Speedwell, Red Dead-nettle, Common Snowdrop and Winter Aconite.

Spring was most definitely in the air today 🙂
#TheWinter10 plus two for this week's #WildflowerHour, names in Alt-text.
The earliest record for a UK orchid flowering is 4 March 2023, for an Early Purple orchid - less than two weeks away!
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A little repost for #wildflowerhour 😀

Celandine bud side view

Celandine bud head on, just opening, many anthers not yet dehisced. So - very smooth as pollen not released.

21st February is Celandine Day (since 1795). So it is fitting on 22nd February to show the first flower I've seen locally to Coleraine in N or NI.
Lesser Celandine. Not much else flowering.

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#WildflowerHour #WildflowerAllotment Lots of ladybirds around today, this one investigating some Field Woundwort.

Coltsfoot growing in front of a garage block, lesser celandines on a verge, and what I hope maybe wild daffodils in a woodland ?
All seen this week for #WildflowerHour

Woohoo! For #wildflowerhour my first Colt’s-foot flower of the year! 💛🎉🥰

Tightly budded with one flower opening, Marsh Marigold against the background of a wet grassland scrape

Several weeks behind last years first flowering. Marsh Marigold in a Lincolnshire nature reserve scrape. #WildflowerHour

Alexander's - an umbellifer with pale yellow flowers and green oval ish leaves. It is next to a post and on the edge of coast vegetated shingle. There are crows in the distance

Alexander's at Stokes Bay yesterday #WildflowerHour

A bright yellow Lesser Celandine flower

My first find of a fully opened Lesser Celandine this year on a rural Lincolnshire verge. #WildflowerHour

Montage showing Shepherd’s purse, Cut-leaved dead nettle, Lesser celandine, Blackthorn, Annual mercury, Sweet violets, Petty spurge, White dead nettle, Common chickweed, Sweet violet again and Daisy.

Shepherd’s purse, Cut-leaved dead nettle, Lesser celandine, Blackthorn, Annual mercury, Sweet violets, Petty spurge, White dead nettle, Common chickweed, Sweet violet again and Daisy. #TheWinter10 #WildflowerHour

Turned out to be a bit early today for scurvy-grass (Cochlearia) flowers, but what a perfect rosette...and just look at these gorgeous pink thrift (Armeria maritima) leaves!
A bit #vegetative for #wildflowerhour maybe, so an obliging dandelion too...
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Reminder that the deadline to apply for this great role as BSBI Wales Officer is midnight on Monday 23 February.
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Know any botanists in Wales who'd like to join our lovely botanical team? The deadline is this Monday (23 Feb)- so apply soon! @cedar-ni.bsky.social @bangoruniscience.bsky.social @treborthbg.bsky.social @aberuni.bsky.social @irishwildlife.bsky.social @peatlandcymru.bsky.social @manxpeat.bsky.social

This week, our #BotanicalSkillsNI project returned for 3 jam-packed days of conifer identification workshops in Castlewellan Forest Park, Co Down. Let's hope we've helped to spark new interest and knowledge for identifying these under-recorded trees!

A Lesser Periwinkle flower, bud, and some leaves

I found a fresh new Lesser Periwinkle bud and flower, they look so pretty in the sunlight! #WildflowerHour

A knitted hot pink pineapple

Alexander, divine,
Meet the beautiful Celandine,
Your Valentine 💘
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The #Winter10 (11), Woolston Eyes Nature Reserve.
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Hazel, Gorse, Ragwort, Common Mouse-ear, Shepherd's-purse, Red Dead-nettle, Colt's-foot, Wavy Bittercress, Common Field-speedwell, Scentless Mayweed & Sun Spurge. A right mix of neophytes, archaeophytes & native species.

Enough bright sunshine yesterday to bring out the flowers of common whitlow grass (pic 1) and hairy bittercress (pic 2) at The Holies, Streatley (W. Berks). #wildflowerhour

Charlock, Sinapis arvensis, on the grass bank of the causeway at Abberton Reservoir. #WildflowerHour

Gagea bohemica Early Star-of-Bethlehem at Stanner Rocks! A cheery spark of sunshine in the damp grey welshness. All credit to the volunteer site warden who keeps the habitat open for this and the site’s other botanical treasures. #Wildflowerhour

The weird and wonderful flowers of Butchers broom seen this week in Eastbourne, East Sussex #wildflowerhour