Some observations from my travels last week, including a naturally regenerating willow woodland, female hazel 'flowers', traveller's-joy, burdock and velcro and cracking crack willow tomwardplz.wordpress.com/2026/01/17/t...
Floral turf absolutely brimming with Ornithopus, Rumex and Aphanes on Hartlebury Common. Plus the beeeeautiful Cladonia lichen heath looking festive af ❄️👌🌿. The acid grassland flora suffered this spring, so hoping it's double awesome next year 🙏
Awesome find Jo, one to keep an eye out for!
Vicia villosa (Fodder vetch), Trifolium incarnatum (Crimson clover) and Linum usitatissimum (Flax) from an arable bird mix. Leigh, Worcestershire. 07.11.25. @wildflowerhour.bsky.social
20 years on from the first #GBRedList for vascular plants - what's changed?
285 taxa have become more threatened.
Critically Endangered up from 35 to 55 taxa, Endangered up from 90 to 117 taxa, Vulnerable up from 220 to 261 taxa 😱☠️
Action needed now! Well done @bsbibotany.bsky.social and partners
Hello, is anybody out there?
Mentha x verticillata (Whorled Mint) candidate from Cinderford Brook, Forest of Dean. Robust, inflorescence terminated in leaves, stamen included within corolla. @wildflowerhour.bsky.social, have the botanical community moved to bluesky? Must try to re-find folk...
