Wild flower hour

A regular peek at what wild flower lovers have been discovering this week.

Thank you to everyone who posted photos of wild flowers from this weekend. Here are the highlights of this Sunday’s #wildflowerhour.

F&F’s own contribution is Lady’s Bedstraw, Galium verum, coming to the end of its flowering season on Chiltern chalk grassland.

If you missed it, you can join in next week, Sunday 8pm either by adding #wildflowerhour to your tweets or tweeting your pictures at the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland feed @BSBIbotany.

Castleton, Derbys. Musk Thistle showing why its also called the Nodding Thistle! Cuckoo flower also still in flower. pic.twitter.com/R7uIwCoxux

— Debbie Alston (@Debbie1Alston) August 16, 2015

Irish lady’s tresses from #RSPB Portmore Lough reserve, Co. Antrim #wildflowerhour #orchids pic.twitter.com/wEQiO32oEJ

— Neal Warnock (@NealWarnock) August 16, 2015

Marsh helleborine (Epipactis palustris) at Dry Sandford Pit @BSBIbotany @BBOWT pic.twitter.com/x7Ja4WPcWh

— Ed Austin (@ornithoed43) August 16, 2015

Meadow Vetchling (Lathyrus pratensis) Draws nitrogen from the air to its root nodules #wildflowers @fennelandfern pic.twitter.com/fpci4zJhgC

— Lorna Crowcroft-rose (@LornaCrowcroft) August 16, 2015

@BSBIbotany Sea Rocket yesterday on Marazion Beach, St. Michael’s Mount in the background. #Cakilemaritima pic.twitter.com/sgzZNN4XBZ — Ian Ralphs (@Ralphs_Ian) August 16, 2015

Upright Hedge Parsley @BSBIbotany @Love_plants @WildaboutPlants pic.twitter.com/PFYjgmfSp0

— Larry Shone (@larry_shone) August 15, 2015

@OshDuffy @BSBIbotany @murlong77 @MaireadCrawf Wow your juniper has a lot of berries! Not so many in W Cork I think. pic.twitter.com/u1azJb1ihb — Glengarriff Woods NR (@GlengarriffWood) August 15, 2015

Dactylorhiza purpurella x maculata - Lough Fad, #Inishowen, #H34 @murlong77 @MaireadCrawf @SuperHans28 @BSBIbotany pic.twitter.com/2uVWMb4sZW

— Oisín Duffy (@OshDuffy) August 15, 2015

6 spot burnet on dactylorhiza maculata x purperella at Lough Fad #H34 @BSBIbotany @murlong77 @OshDuffy @MaireadCrawf pic.twitter.com/5joSN342Kr — Hannah Mulcahy (@SuperHans28) August 15, 2015

Down amongst the Knapweed @BSBIbotany @Love_plants @WildaboutPlants @NatureUK pic.twitter.com/tfENBr71M7

— Larry Shone (@larry_shone) August 15, 2015

Tetragonia tetragonioides - New Zealand Spinach found on tideline on Dungeness Point/NNR. @BSBIbotany @LliamRooney pic.twitter.com/FCxRlVsSKc — owen leyshon (@LeyshonOwen) August 15, 2015

@BSBIbotany Heath Speedwell, another stunning small flower from Staggs Fell #Wensleydale #Yorkshiredales pic.twitter.com/zYRaFvuUqV

— Red Campion (@anna_mcara) August 15, 2015

Wildflowers everywhere on the north Antrim coast! @BSBIbotany @GrowWildNI @NorthCoastNI #wildflowers #flora pic.twitter.com/9wt3asR7Wa

— Simon Gray (@SimonGray14) August 14, 2015

First frog orchid find for me. @BSBIbotany @murlong77 @OshDuffy @MaireadCrawf #inishowenH34 pic.twitter.com/x0CfABZglT

— Hannah Mulcahy (@SuperHans28) August 14, 2015

@BSBIbotany The delicate purple flowers of Heath Milkwort on Staggs Fell #Wensleydale #Yorkshiredales pic.twitter.com/8HB2qr2OeX

— Red Campion (@anna_mcara) August 14, 2015

Autumn Gentian are just starting to appear on Powerstock Common @DWTKingcombe @BSBIbotany pic.twitter.com/Gsyf6MMv3k

— DorsetWildlife Trust (@DWTWestDorset) August 14, 2015

Restharrow (Ononis repens) - a plant found mainly near the S & E coasts of Ireland @BSBIbotany #HeirIsland #WestCork pic.twitter.com/0yRza6lGz9

— Glengarriff Woods NR (@GlengarriffWood) August 13, 2015

Found a few abnormal round-leaved fluellens Poss gene silencing in action? #Oxfordshire @DrTrevorDines @BSBIbotany pic.twitter.com/Gp55utTy74

— Ian Senior (@Ians4AD) August 13, 2015

Found 1st #Chiltern gentians flowering the other night on @BBOWT #Yoesden reserve. Maj still just in bud @BSBIbotany pic.twitter.com/M3WUAW4A93

— Ian Senior (@Ians4AD) August 13, 2015

TA DA! In other news from t’wood-meadow, first flowering of Agrimony, Agrimonia eupatoria @BSBIbotany @SeymourDaily pic.twitter.com/2sft3B9oV8

— linden hawthorne (@Haggewoods) August 13, 2015