Only 32 on the #NewYearPlantHunt some patches of Atriplex littoralis spreading along salted roads even in Oxon. @bsbibotany.bsky.social
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Only 32 on the #NewYearPlantHunt some patches of Atriplex littoralis spreading along salted roads even in Oxon. @bsbibotany.bsky.social
Some colour #SmallCopper
Nice find π
Limonium anglicum, Limonium bellidifolium still with a few flowers, Limonium humile underwater, and Limonium intercedens in SM21 habitat with Frankenia laevis and Suaeda vera
Some Limonium from Scolt-head Island, Norfolk today. went out with Baz Scampion on his boat. @bsbibotany.bsky.social #wildflowerhour . lax-flowered was photographed under water.
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Hieracium clovense
Erigeron borealis
Taraxacum cymbifolium
Hieracium eximium
Some asters from Scotland this week. Hieracium clovense, Erigeron borealis, Taraxacum cymbifolium and Hieracium eximium @bsbi #wildflowerhour #asteraceae
Nice little find on the edge of an old arable field this morning Silene noctiflora #WildflowerHour #botany
Taraxacum hesperium on a south Norfolk verge today. The second most frequent section Celtica here in the east #wildflowerhour
Taraxacum exsertiforme
Taraxacum speciosiflorum
Two #dandelion from Bristol yesterday. Both of these species lack pollen. The stunning #Taraxacum speciosiflorum ( I found numerous plants growing in the dunes at Spurn last year) and Taraxacum exsertiforme ( common in Oxfordshire ).
Thanks Marcus
@mjlbirder.bsky.social hi Marcus I had this moth last year on Unst in June. Sitting on Taraxacum serpenticola . Any ideas?
Nice find. Would you put it in the Stenoglossa group?
Need to get Derek onto social media @birderdave1.bsky.social
It's been recommended #books #booksky
From a rainy Somerset today. Geoglossum sp. and some Scarlet caterpillar club Cordyceps militaris #fungi
Smartπ
Is it better than CATS?
Worcestershire sauce!
Sad news, saw the 2 birds at Merja Zerga, Morocco back in the early 90s
Hieracium basicrinum
Hieracium cuspidens
Hieracium pseudoanglicum
Hieracium laetificum
I've updated all of the #Hieracium on my website www.vascularplants.co.uk/asteraceae-d... there are 150 species photographed. Here are a few 2024 highlights from my first ever #hawkweed trip to Scotland Hieracium basicrinum, H cuspidens, H pseudoanglicum, H laetificum
Some #fungi from Somerset this week. Deadly webcap Cortinarius rubellus, Phallus impudicus, Yellow stagshorn Calocera viscosa, Dark honey mushroom Armillaria ostoyae