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Trifolium glomeratum, found on a sandy bank in a meadow on the Isle of Wight. Exquisite flower!
Wood Clubrush in marshland, Alverstone, Isle of Wight. Love this plant!
Oenanthe silaifolia, or narrow-leaved water-dropwort, flowering in species rich water meadows at Amberley Wild Brooks, West Sussex.
Water meadows plants today in Hampshire. Water avens and marsh valerian, with two whippets having fun.
Green winged orchids growing on graves at a cemetery on the Isle of Wight.
Finally got to see Draba aizoides on the Gower this year, and it did not disappoint!
Bluebells and toothwort flowering in ancient woodland in Hampshire yesterday. 😃
Alternate-leaved Golden Saxifrage growing on a river bank in Hampshire. A county rarity that’s persisting, thankfully.
For those of you who like colour forms of viola odorata, I’m thinking this is f. Lilacina; pale colour with lilac flushes, bearded inner petals and dark spur. What do you think? 🤔
Lamium hybridum ( cut leaved dead nettle) found in a pavement , Bishops Waltham, Hampshire. Never tire of seeing this plant.
I love this little fern. Rustyback growing on a flint stone wall near home. Not many sites for it in Hampshire and it has disappeared from some sites on the Isle of Wight.
Nottingham Catchfly silene nutans is enjoying a second flush of flowers on Hayling Island.
Spiked Speedwell Veronica spicata still flowering beautifully in the Avon Gorge.
A surprise find in the shape of Dittrichia viscosa Woody Fleabane on the central reservation of a dual carriageway outside Southampton. Made my day!
May not be much to look at, but this is the very rare Potamogeton nodosus Loddon Pondweed looking rather attractive in a river on the Hampshire Berkshire border.
Another one for Sorbus fans: the rare Sorbus domestica growing on coastal cliffs in a remote spot along the river Severn.
One of my favourite species of dock: Rumex maritimus, golden dock, looking particularly golden in a damp meadow in Cambridgeshire
For Sorbus fans: Sorbus herefordensis growing on the edge of woodland in Herefordshire ( of course). A very handsome tree!
Not your usual mugwort, this is Chinese mugwort, which flowers much later in the season and has different leaves to common mugwort.
End of summer colour: golden samphire still putting on a great display along the sea wall at Broadmarsh, Hampshire.
This little beauty is the hybrid between common and pale toadflax, Linaria x sepium. Growing with Pale toadflax, Linaria repens, on chalk grassland on a disused railway embankment in Hampshire
Pale toadflax, Linaria repens, flowering happily on chalk grassland on a disused railway embankment in Hampshire
