Shaggy Soldier, Galinsoga quadriradiata, in its regular spot along Saxon Street in #Cambridge (L) but also amongst the nettles at the side of a #Suffolk #Brecks field at Icklingham (R). #WildflowerHour

For #wildflowerhour this week it’s Scarlet Pimpernel. Apparently ‘pimpernel’ is derived from old French pimprenele and the Latin piperinella meaning ‘little pepper’. Referring to the small, round, pepper-like seed capsules

More fairly urban finds for #WildflowerHour - the Small Toadflax in Trowbridge are determined to be renamed Really-quite-large Toadflax.

A #LateFlowering Lesser Hawkbit for #WildflowerHour
#Hodbarrow reserve is a unique mix of semi-natural & brownfield habitats with a hugely diverse flora as a result. The small areas of dune grassland provide niches for species like this.
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#Cumbria
#Duddon #Estuary #SSSI

And suddenly the huge Fleabane plant in my front yard is over. Just one very bedraggled flower with some petals on. Time to admit that mandatory fleabane season is finished. Farewell until next year. #WildflowerHour

Fox-and-cubs.

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Cup Fungi looking like a black Rose #wildflowerhour

Had a bit of time to kill on the White Lund industrial estate in Morecambe. What else then but a bit of urban botanising. Quite surprising how much I found really - Crepis capilaris was probably the pick of the bunch. Names in alt 📷
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#Urban #Botany

I haven't been finding many different wildflowers for some time, so I'm even more out of practice than usual for identifying them; I think this was Common Hogweed #WildFlowerHour

Shepherd’s purse in the fields today #WildFlowerHour

I forgot to check the seed heads to confirm id but I think these are Rough and Lesser Hawkbit. Both in All Saints churchyard, Plumpton Green, East Sussex #wildflowerhour

I found one Common Yarrow plant in flower, wildflowers are now very sparse #WildFlowerHour

This Red Clover plant had the flowers replaced with what looks like leaflets. Same thing happened on all flower heads of this plant #wildflowerhour

Common Toadflax, Linaria vulgaris, by far the commonest flower beside tracks at RSPB #LakenheathFen #Suffolk today.
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There are still a few Fox And Cubs plants flowering in my front yard after the summer was too dry for them to try. I love all my weeds/wildflowers, but I think these are my favourite. #WildflowerHour

One of my favourite cabbages (if you know what I mean). Sea Rocket (Cakile maritima) on the shore at Deganwy #wildflowerhour

#Wildflowerhour Found in Lancashire and Cheshire this week. Names in ALT.

Mudwort Limosella aquatica was the plant of the week for me. Thriving population in a tiny hollow in the northern New Forest, Hampshire. #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Flowers of Jerusalem Artichoke, Helianthus tuberosus, still flying high by the end of West Wood at RSPB #LakenheathFen #Suffok today. #WildflowerHour