A Green Shieldbug nymph (final instar I think) hanging out on some Fragrant Agrimony fruits near Bolder Mere. #WildWebsWednesday
Moira O'Donnell
@naturelark.bsky.social
Fae Dundee 🏴 but now in South London. Choral singing, botany, butterflies, birds, wee beasties, crochet, cups of tea, G&T. Larking about in nature. Ooh look, there's a thing... 🤔 #WildflowerHour All my posts from X came too. https://linktr.ee/naturelark
Grass-of-Parnassus in the dunes at Aberffraw #Anglesey Just a few minutes walk to the beach so I'm including it #ByTheSea #Wildflowerhour
Whilst cycling in Connemara, it was a great treat to see an abundance of Pipewort in several of their beautiful clear loughs. #wildflowerhour
Heather, Calluna vulgaris, and Cross-leaved Heath, Erica tetralix, on Wisley Common. With Bell Heather, E. cinerea, on next door Ockham Common. #WildflowerHour
Marsh Pennywort, Hydrocotyle vulgaris, beside the pond on Wisley Common. As usual, one has to rummage around under the leaves to find the wee flowers. #WildflowerHour
It’s Sunday & it’s 8pm so it’s time for #wildflowerhour! 🎉 Please share the wild & naturalised blooms you’ve spotted across Britain & Ireland in the last week especially if you found them #ByTheSea, the theme for this week’s challenge!
Pam McInnes @pammcinnes.bsky.social · 3d ago#Wildflowerhour #ByTheSea2 More from the stunning Jurassic coast. Names in ALT.
Great survey from Jack below to get an idea of what copes well with the drought - do fill it out if you have time. I've been thinking that it makes more sense in dry summers to have wildflowers in our urban grasslands as it reduces fire risk
Jack Wallington@jackwallington.com · 4d agoWhich wild plants are coping with heat and drought? Please share and fill in my new survey: forms.gle/TZYyqgHqwcbo... the results will be shared free access on wildway.info
I spotted this on a pavement near my house and initially thought it was Spotted Spurge, Euphorbia maculata, a plant which I have been keeping my eye out for. However, I now think it might be E. serpens. If so, that's interesting, as there are only a handful of UK records. bsbi.org/maps/?taxoni...
Gall of the week is caused by the gall midge Kiefferia pericarpiicola on several dozen umbellifers, in this case wild carrot, Daucus carota. Photo by Graham Calow.
Common Club-rush, Schoenoplectus lacustris, in the River Wey. (Formerly known by the common name Bulrush, with what most people now call Bulrush being known as Reedmace).
A plant I have been wanting to find for ages, Greater Dodder, Cuscuta europaea, parasitising Common Nettle, Urtica dioica, on the bank of the River Wey as it flows past RHS Wisley. I was so surprised I nearly fell into the river! Worth getting a few stings for. plantatlas2020.org/atlas/2cd4p9...
Great excitement as I see Arrowhead, Sagittaria sagittifolia, in flower twice in one week in different rivers (River Colne and River Wey).
What can you find blooming along the coast? That’s the challenge this week for #WildflowerHour! Share your pics this Sunday 8-9pm using the hashtag #ByTheSea! Happy flower hunting! 🌿🌸🌊
The Saw-wort, Serratula tinctoria, at Mitcham Common was not looking particularly happy in this prolonged hot dry weather.
Some damsels and dragons I have seen recently. Willow Emeralds at RHS Wisley Common Darter at Mitcham Common Brown Hawker at Frensham Little Pond Ruddy Darter at Frensham Little Pond
A Holly Blue nectaring on some Green Alkanet. I love its matching stripy legs and antennae. #WildWebsWednesday
Marsh Ragwort, Jacobaea aquatica, on Staines Moor. 💛
Lovely Skullcap, Scutellaria galericulata, on the bank of the River Colne on Staines Moor. I hardly ever see this plant, so I was delighted to come across this patch.
One of my favourite Thistles - Musk Thistle, Carduus nutans, on Staines Moor.
Spiny Restharrow, Ononis spinosa, on Staines Moor. A plant I'm always chuffed to see. 🩷
I spent some time this afternoon on Mitcham Common watching the Bee-wolf wasps flying back to their nests carrying their prey. Fascinating stuff (unless you are the unfortunate bees of course).
Surely one of the most beautiful of our #WetlandPlants, Flowering Rush, Botomus umbellatus, at Runnymede. 😍 #WildflowerHour
Some Purple Loosestrife crashing the Yellow Loosestrife party at Langham Pond, Runnymede. #WetlandPlants #WildflowerHour
Orange Foxtail, Alopecurus aequalis, on the dried up edge of Langham Pond, Runnymede. #WetlandPlants #WildflowerHour
Cyperus Sedge, Carex pseudocyperus, in wet woodland next to Langham Pond, Runnymede. #WetlandPlants #WildflowerHour
Lesser Marshwort, Helosciadium inundatum, on the dried up edge of Langham Pond, Runnymede. #WetlandPlants ##WildflowerHour
