It's along the verges at the N end of Broom Way for sure.
06.03.2026 20:01
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It's along the verges at the N end of Broom Way for sure.
Looks more like Annual Meadow-grass that. Poa infirma is a very obvious sickly lime green!
Human management of the landscape created a diversity of habitats that were able to support a greater number of plant species. Fewer people: lower diversity.
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The beautiful Slender Speedwell Veronica filiformis scrambling over the graves at St Stephen's, Sparsholt, Hampshire. Speed-you-well seems a perfect floral sentiment. @bsbibotany.bsky.social
Sea Thrift Armeria maritima getting to the spring party early. Hayling Island, Hampshire. @bsbibotany.bsky.social
Yelp! Mediterranean Gull madness at Hayling Island's incredible Oyster Beds. Most of the UK breeding population nests in Langstone Harbour, and hundreds of birds gather for courtship and general gullness at the Oyster Beds. It's quite the sight at the moment. @hosbirding.bsky.social
Spectacular!
Continuing the 'spectacular' theme, here's Early Meadow-grass Poa infirma on Hayling Island. Once a rarity restricted to the SW of England, it's now quite widespread and a guaranteed find here in coastal Hampshire. @bsbibotany.bsky.social
The spectacular blooms of Lesser Chickweed Stellaria pallida 😅. Firmly in the niche botany bracket. Hayling Island, Hampshire. @bsbibotany.bsky.social
Agree. BSBI app is SO much easier!
300 year old Canary Island Dragon Tree Dracaena draco at Los Realejos has fallen 😢
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The true spring flower. Wood Anemone (Anemine nemorosa). Central Hampshire today. @bsbibotany.bsky.social
Toothwort Lathraea squamaria. Plant or creature? A couple of early spikes showing in central Hampshire today. @bsbibotany.bsky.social
Green Hellebore Helleborus viridis in a beautiful strip of Hazel coppice at Walderton, West Sussex today. @bsbibotany.bsky.social
Look at my Daz-white wings. Big flock of Mediterranean Gulls on floods by the River Ems at Walderton, West Sussex this morning. These birds are currently congregating/pairing at the old oyster beds on Hayling Island and moving up river valleys to feed inland. Land and sea connections.
Garden joyfulness today. Coltsfoot Tussilago farfara, White Ramping-fumitory Fumaria capreolata, and Sweet Violet Viola odorata var imberbis. None of these planted. @bsbibotany.bsky.social
Rue-leaved Saxifrage Saxifraga tridactylites and Common Whitlow-grass Erophila verna. Happy as Larry on this old wall in Winchester, Hampshire. @bsbibotany.bsky.social
Primrose Primula vulgaris, 8 feet up a plant-festooned wall at Winchester College. Not a species I usually associate with walls, so a pleasant surprise. @bsbibotany.bsky.social
Ah, good luck with that! Winters here in the southern UK tend to be dreary, dull, and wet rather than a snowy wonderland, so I'm glad it's all ending 😅.
Coltsfoot Tussilago farfara has unexpectedly appeared under the rhubarb in the garden. Also a Peacock nectaring on Primrose. Well and truly spring today here in central Hampshire. @bsbibotany.bsky.social
Absolutely! I'll email 🙏
Hits the nail here...
Agree with the boy here, though 🤣
Trifolium striatum I reckon
Fumaria coccinea I think.
Marsh Clubmoss (Lycopodiella inundata) shoots creeping across a wet, bare substrate. The shoots are bottle-brush like, bright yellow-green with narrow, untoothed leaves sticking out from the main stem.
A series of Marsh Clubmoss shoots criss-crossing the flush, looking like a group of yellow-green centipedes running across the muddy ground
**BREAKING NEWS** - Marsh Clubmoss refound in Dunbartonshire, at a site where it was last recorded in 1854!
Being more-or-less evergreen, clubmosses make great botanical targets all year round. With that in mind, I set out to hunt for Marsh Clubmoss near Inveraran on the shore of Loch Lomond 🧵
Unclear I think, but I don't know the backstory. Been there a good few years now.
Floral sunshine in Hampshire today. Lesser Celandine Ficaria verna. @bsbibotany.bsky.social