Walking around the local garden centre, peered under the citrus leaves and came face to face with Icerya purchasi, Cottony Cushion Scale. An introduction from Australia @panspecieslisting.bsky.social @sorbynathissoc.bsky.social

Found this one at a Tram stop in Sheffield on a Sorby Botanical Meeting. Lots of head scratching and app searching in the end we settled on it potentially being Ajowen Caraway, Trachyspermum ammo, #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social @sorbynathissoc.bsky.social @panspecieslisting.bsky.social

Round Leaved Fluellen, Kickxia spuria. Arable field in the Quantock Hills, with a Peloric Flower!! @bsbibotany.bsky.social @panspecieslisting.bsky.social

@tramlines.bsky.social Another great weekend 2026!! Highlights @westerncowboykc.bsky.social @inspiralcarpets.bsky.social @wolfalicefans.bsky.social & Creeping Jean

Bless you!! Sneezewort in the Evening sun, Lindrick Common, S Yorks #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social @panspecieslisting.bsky.social @sorbynathissoc.bsky.social

Gunna take a deep breath for this Common Broomrape, Orobanche minor ssp minor Var pseudomethystea forma lutea Crosby Dunes #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social @panspecieslisting.bsky.social

Good year for Smooth Rupturewort, Herniaria glabra, at its South Lincs site near Sleaford. Last few years it was burnt to crisp by now #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social @panspecieslisting.bsky.social

Had to put on my crampons on and grow my Chris Bonington beard to see the Snowden Lily on Cwm Idwal, worth it in the end. @bsbibotany.bsky.social @panspecieslisting.bsky.social

Field Fleawort, Tephroseris integrifolia ssp maritima, at it’s only place in this world on Anglesey @bsbibotany.bsky.social @panspecieslisting.bsky.social

Privileged view of Washington window at Selby Abbey Pictured just after renovation in 2006, also part of the American Trail #stainedglassSunday #usa #ushistory #americantrail

Psilothrix veridicoerulea, sunbathing at Durdle Door @panspecieslisting.bsky.social #invertebrates #dorsetwildlife

Dewberry (Rubus caesius) growing along the Chesterfield Canal at Shireoaks. Thanks to @pshughes.bsky.social for pointing it out during yesterday's @sorbynathissoc.bsky.social field-meeting.

One of the botanical secrets in my local woods is Mountain Melick, Melica nutans. Putting on a show before the canopy closes. Anston Stones Wood S Yorks @bsbibotany.bsky.social @panspecieslisting.bsky.social @sorbynathissoc.bsky.social

Early Meadow Grass, Poa infirma, has just been confirmed by the VC 61 East York’s recorder & BSBI Poa referee, Wheldrake E Yorks @bsbibotany.bsky.social @panspecieslisting.bsky.social

Drooping Star of Bethlehem was nice surprise. #hedgerow #wildflowerhour Harwell Notts @bsbibotany.bsky.social @panspecieslisting.bsky.social @sorbynathissoc.bsky.social

Puccinia tumida a Rust found on the Leaves and Petioles of Pignut, probably best time to keep an eye out for the it #fungus @panspecieslisting.bsky.social #mycology

This is it! The most Northerly native Pasqueflower in UK, for many years it’s hung on for dear life, Ledsham, Yorks @bsbibotany.bsky.social @panspecieslisting.bsky.social #wildflowerhour

The Spring Cinquefoil at Brocadale nr Pontefract was mentioned in J E Lousley’s famous New Naturalist book Wild Flowers of Chalk & Limestone, You can see why, stunning @bsbibotany.bsky.social @panspecieslisting.bsky.social #wildflowerhour

Early morning walk around Gamston Wood SSSI near Retford, surprised to the amount of Herb Paris, Paris quadrifolia there is, lots of patches of it as you meander through

Went to check out the invasive ant colony in B&Q car park in Worksop, which are also present at the Notcutts Garden Centre at Welbeck, I understand it is Tapinoma magnum. @hymenopterists.org.web.brid.gy @sorbynathissoc.bsky.social @panspecieslisting.bsky.social #ants

It was nice eventually catch up with the Purple Toothwort that grows in the Sheffield Botanical Gardens #wildflowerhour @sorbynathissoc.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Bendy Ditrichum Flexitrichum flexicaule, now showing very well in the old Magnesium Limestone quarries in S Yorks. @bbsbryology.bsky.social @sorbynathissoc.bsky.social #bryophytes @panlistapp.bsky.social

Plenty of Early Colletes, Colletes cubicularius overlooking the Trent Valley at Barton Hills Sand Pits SSSI, Notts @hymenopterists.org.web.brid.gy #bees

Part of the West window for the Hessle Church restoration E Yorks in Magnesium Limestone @historicengland.bsky.social #restoration @englishheritage.bsky.social #stonemason

Rare Spring Sedge Carex ericetorum starting to show well on Lindrick Common Golf Course, S Yorks @bsbibotany.bsky.social @sorbynathissoc.bsky.social #wildflowerhour

Mezereon, Daphne mezereum and growing among it the rare Rose-moss, Rhodobryum roseum. Millers Dale NR Derbys. March @bsbibotany.bsky.social @sorbynathissoc.bsky.social #wildflowerhour

The dis-used railway cutting between Cresswell and Clowne Derbys, was adorned with Liverworts, finally managed to catch a Bifid Crestwort Lophocolea bidentata in its glory