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New challenge alert!🔔 When managed sympathetically churchyards can be amazing places for wildlife! The challenge this week is to see which wild & naturalised plants you can find blooming there! Share for #wildflowerhour this Sunday 8-9pm using #ChurchyardFlowers
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Marsh violet. New one for me! @bsbibotany.bsky.social #wildflowerhour
A very pretty raspberry ripple-esque Heath Spotted Orchid, Dactylorhiza maculata, on a road verge in the Ashdown Forest. 😍
An excursion yesterday to Croydon's Farthing Downs and Happy Valley in pursuit of Orchids. 🤩
Hogweed is in flower; plenty of variation in flower and stem colour if you look closely and like white or purple, so you can be sure of finding one that looks fabulous
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Wolf's Milk, Lycogala epidendrum, on dead Hazel wood at Happy Valley in Croydon. Starts off pink in colour, but then matures to grey/brown. I was very happy to see it! #SlimeMould
The patch of Sea Bindweed (Calystegia soldanella) near to the fishing boats, Dungeness is looking fresh and vibrant this early summer
The plant is found at Greatstone to the North (Kent) and to the west at Camber Dunes (Sussex) but this is the only patch on the Point
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A variety of pleasing finds at @gloswildlife.bsky.social's Daneway Banks reserve with @timnmosborne.bsky.social, including Dark Mullein and Wild Liquorice. IDs in ALT Text. #WildflowerHour @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social
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Flummoxed by a Foxglove: never noticed a Foxglove like this before with short corolla and protruding reproductive structures. On a road verge in Carmarthenshire. Anybody else seen this? Thanks @naturelark.bsky.social @sylvatica2024.bsky.social @commonbynature.bsky.social
