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What an early female Hazel flower! Worth a revisit for @bsbibotany.bsky.social's #NewYearPlantHunt ?😃 ❄️

@wildflowerhour.bsky.social @irishwoodlandtrust.bsky.social @mikekally.bsky.social @cedar-ni.bsky.social #Botany #WinterPlants @irishwildlifetrust.bsky.social

Betony a red-purple flower brightened up by moisture from the rain

Lus beatha / betony holding on and brightening up a rainy day in #Killarney National Park this week #WildflowerHour

Alder carr near Ross Castle, Killarney

Possible signs of progress at Killarney National Park?

This is the Derrycunnihy area of the Park which is being targeted for deer culling and where there are signs of a positive response from the vegetation. Good news...

Beautiful habitat, lovely to see those species.

Fraoch na haon chose / St Dabeoc's Heath brightening up the day in North Connemara in County Galway for #WildflowerHour

Teasel seedheads silhouetted against a pretty sunset

Teasel seedheads #seedheads #wildflowerhour #Yorkshire #sunset

Got to be Guelder-rose #fruits as a companies by such gorgeously rusty leaves #wildflowerhour

Rosehips after rain, Co Leitrim.
Rose ID is 'thorny', but start with this riddle:
Q: Mrs Rose has five sons: two have beards, two don't, and one couldn't decide and has half a beard.
A: a dog rose, Rosa canina agg.(look at the lobes on the sepals) @bsbibotany.bsky.social #wildflowerhour #fruits

Caithne / Arbutus #fruit for #WildflowerHour brightening up a rainy day in #Killarney National Park in County Kerry

The fungus in orange living within the developing sporophyte in the perianth

A lush temperate rainforest with trees covered in mosses and ferns

1st Irish record of the newly described bryophilous ascomycete Endoantria benetecta on its host Lejeunea patens from the temperate rainforest at Correl Glen, West Fermanagh

Known only from Scotland & Wales; this marks the first for Ireland - our rainforests support untold diversity

#fungifriends

Luibh bhléine/ sea aster

Ailleann Pheadair/ golden samphire

Peasair arbhair/ hairy tare

Ailleann Pheadair/ golden samphire, Luibh bhléine/ sea aster along with the tiny Peasair arbhair/ hairy tare #ByTheSea in Rosscarbery County Cork. The raspberry sorbet ice-cream there is well worth it #WildflowerHour

Can I sneak in an Irish plant for #WildflowerHour? The extreme rarity Cottonweed, Achillea (=Otanthus) maritima, from its only British Isles site in dunes in SE Ireland. Incredible silver colour, looks more like a desert plant! One more species to add to namethatplant.org.

Lesser Butterfly Orchid with a background of Heather and Bell Heather in #Galway #wildflowerhour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

A joy to see hocas tae buí/ yellow bartsia in a very wet #Killarney National Park today. Many times I've passed this field and failed to notice #WildflowerHour

Grupo de flores lila siendo visitadas por una abeja grande

Hembra de Amegilla ochroleuca visitando flores de Stachys officinalis para libar néctar, haciendo gala de su vertiginosa velocidad habitual. En promedio se detiene en cada flor un poco menos de un segundo. El polen que lleva cargado es de Hypericum perforatum, que está en flor en los alrededores.

Ivy-leaved Bellflower Wahlenbergia hederacea in the New Forest, Hampshire today. Thankfully, in a shady spot, otherwise these fragile flowers would probably be toast. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Hemp-agrimony, Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal. #hairyplants #wildflowerhour

Lus na Tríonóide / great willowherb in the sunshine in Castleisland, #Kerry for #Hairyplants #WildflowerHour

This Loggerhead Turtle was found by a tourist on Lettergesh beach, Rinvyle today. I collected her & brought her half the way down to Dingle Oceanworld Aquarium who specialise in the rehabilitation of sea turtles. 7th Loggerhead to be found in Ireland this year.🤞for a successful recovery.

The lovely cool shade of the woodland floor

Killarney National Park this week, broad leaf helleborine for #HelleborineChallenge
#WildflowerHour

Illegal peat extraction causing catastrophic damage -EPA The large-scale, illegal commercial extraction of peat is widespread in Ireland and the sector does not operate within planning or environmental laws.

Large-scale, illegal commercial extraction of peat is decimating vital ecosystems, according to the Environmental Protection Agency
www.rte.ie/news/2025/06...

#foxgloves #flowers #rockery #gardens #ireland

Guiding action on invasive alien species towards meeting the EU's Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 Invasive alien species (IAS) are a major threat to global biodiversity. The total cost of biological invasions across all European Union member states has been estimated at 129.9 billion US dollars be...

Invasive Alien Species in Europe: "the greatest opportunities to reduce regional species extinction risk by mitigating threats from IAS come from managing feral goats (12.4%), mouflons (8.1%), rabbits (5.3%) and rats (4.6%)." neobiota.pensoft.net/article/1483...

Spencer Harbour, Lough Allen, Sliabh an Iarainn in background

Lesser Marshwort (Apium inundatum) can exist on muddy lakeshores or submerged, but it definitely fit the #AquaticPlants bill today, after all the rain🌧. Tricky to photograph too! Lower leaves are filamentous, like water-crowfoot @wildflowerhour.bsky.social #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Bladder Sedge, Water-pepper, Water-plantain, Lesser Marshwort and Cyperus Sedge: #AquaticPlants at Lough Allen, Co Leitrim this evening @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social #wildflowerhour #LoveLeitrim #wetlandplants @communitywetlands.bsky.social

Photo of the flowers of the Lesser Butterfly Orchid. Approx ten greenish white flowers on a short stem ( maybe 15-20 cm). Grasses and sedges in the background.

For #WildflowerHour tonight, aquatic-adjacent #AquaticPlants - bog residents Lesser Butterfly Orchid (Platanthera bifolia or, in Irish: Magairlín beag an fhéileacáin) in Co. Kildare. Do #TráthnamBláth anocht, seo Magairlín Beag an Fhéileacáin, ina chónaí ar an bportaigh i gCo. Chill Dara.