Latest posts tagged with #UrbanBotany on Bluesky
The Pennsylvania Pellitory (Parietaria pensylvanica) should be popping out everywhere around here soon. It will grow out of anything, including tiny cracks in walls, which is a great advantage here. These shots were taken in Whitman on April 18th of last year. #UrbanBotany #UrbanFlora
Saturday, I went out to where I'd found Knawel (Scleranthus annuus) and Cutleaf Evening Primrose (Oenothera laciniata) growing together (which I now realize this is technically in Marconi East). This is what I found in the cracks.
#UrbanBotany #CrackLife #Pavementplants
Common Groundsel (Senecio vulgaris) blooming in a sidewalk crack, shot yesterday.
#UrbanBotany #FlowerReport
Huge congratulations to our fabulous friend @commonbynature.bsky.social!
His #UrbanFlora of Newcastle and North Tyneside will be out on Monday.
Essential reading for everyone interested in #UrbanBotany.
It'll be interesting to read it alongside @trevorthebotanist.bsky.social's #UrbanPlants book!
I had thought that these were Acalypha virginica, but I now realize on inspection that these are Rhomboid Mercury (Acalypha rhomboidia). I have deleted a few previous posts of this population as tiny, undeveloped plants. These were shot on August 5th of last year.
#UrbanBotany #UrbanWeeds #Weeds
It's in the carrot family and will have flowers similar to Cow Parsley in a few months' time. #wildflowers #urbanbotany #Londonplants #grasses. @bsbibotany.bsky.social My book, #WildPavements, is published 5 Mar 2026
Huge congratulations to the fabulous @commonbynature.bsky.social!
If you're a fan of #UrbanPlants #UrbanBotany then this book is for you.
We can't wait to read it: well done James!
Spiderflower and Blood Amaranth in an East Oregon sidewalk crack, shot last May 25th.
#UrbanBotany #GardenEscapees
One of the prettiest early-flowering pavement grasses in SE London is Fern Grass (Catapodium rigidum). This one's fl head is 3D so a candidate for subspecies majus rather than ssp. rigidum? #wildflowers #urbanbotany #pavementplants #Londonplants #grasses. #WildPavements is published 5 Mar 2026
In London for a few days a bumped into Mediterranean (Roman) Nettle Urtica membranacea in Walthamstow. Not a species I’ve seen before but unmistakable with those long linear inflorescences! #urbanbotany
My pal Geoff & I visit some urban Bee Orchids in local housing estate lawn. We count 17 leaf rosettes nestled in the turf & will be back to see how many have flowered come late spring/early summer #wildflowers #urbanbotany #pavementplants #Londonplants - #WildPavements is published 5 Mar 2026
URBAN BOTANY: Three Brick Prayer. #urbanbotany #laart #urbanabstract #wanderer #photohaiku #wabisabi #wallart #foundart #see #lusitanadolores #fineartprints
This extraordinarily rainy winter in the Iberian Peninsula has Umbilicus rupestris popping up everywhere, including the cracks in these concrete stairs in #Lisbon🌧️🌱
#navelwort, #penny-pies #wallpennywort #botany #urbanbotany #concrete #umbilicusrupestris
Two photos: left Red Valerian, no longer upright, but lying on a tarmac pavement. Right: Ragwort. One of three or four plants in a small patch of green with trees and grass in Leicester city centre..
Too cold for flowers (and me!) today. Red Valerian (the only flower) by a pavement, and Ragwort. #WildFlowerHour #UrbanBotany
INTO LA | Urban Botany: The Colon Tree. #urbanbotany #botanicalart #botanicalphotography #baretrees #urbanart #fineartprints #contemporaryphotography
Musk Thistle (Carduus nutans) growing along Vare, shot in July of 2020.
#UrbanWildflowers #UrbanBotany #Thistle
Us urban botanists aren't often put off by inclement weather. An annual tradition is a 1st Dec hunt for wild plants in flower in Deptford, SE London. Here I am in the rain on Mon checking the seed shape of Beaked Hawk's-beard, more usually in flower in London in May. #urbanbotany #urbannature
Sutton, Surrey: November plants in flower up to 271 species thanks to Sticky Groundsel and this pavement/wall join colonising Blue-flowered Leadwort (Ceratostigma plumbaginoides) although Stace only lists C. Willmottisnum). #UrbanBotany
Epsom, Surrey: November flowering up to 256 species with Cut-leaved Crane’s-bill and this striking Chinese Lantern that is finding the pavement to its liking #UrbanBotany
Surrey Uber patch November flowers now up to 246 species. A few areas of reconfigured bank along the River Hogsmill were very productive, with the imported soil full of Marigolds, Cosmos, Phacelia plus a bonus Wormwood and Moldavian Dragon-head. Also pavement Jersey Cudweed in Epsom #UrbanBotany
#Borage #boragoofficinalis and #herbrobert #geraniumrobertianum growing happily beside the bins in #Calverley #Leeds #urbanbotany
Hairy Galinsoga (Galinsoga quadriradiata) aka Shaggy Soldier, shot today.
#Wildflowers #UrbanBotany #UrbanFlora
Pennsylvania Cudweed (Gamochaeta pensylvanica) shot yesterday.
#SidewalkPlants #Pavementplants #UrbanBotany
Photograph taken looking down at the deep grey tarmac against which rests a stunning yellow leaf with bronzed edges. The colour contrast is spectacular!
Nature vs Man
for #BlueSkyArtShow theme of #Autumn
#EastCoastKin #photography #colour #nature #getoutdoors #tarmac #leaf #urbanbotany
(Android phone camera)
Really looking forward to speaking at Kent Wildlife Conference tomorrow about - what else? - urban botany! Will be talking Lobelia, Senecio’s and giant invasive trees! #urbanplants #urbanbotany #pavementplants #concretejungle @kentfieldclub.bsky.social @kentgrasshoppers.bsky.social
