Parnassia palustris L, Grass of Parnassus, simply because of breath-taking beauty, but also for the reminder of a day spent at Sefton Dunes, with friends, fuelled by fancy chocolate and gin ... the absolute best way to do botany
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#WildflowerHour #WildflowerAllotment Spearmint still in flower.

This would be a candidate for #FavouritePlant despite not officially being a thistle, but actually it's a normal weekly #WildflowerHour sighting - Perennial Sow-thistle in a road verge at Spurn today during #Migfest.

Loving the yellow of the gorse this week for #wildflowerhour be t my #favouriteplant remains the English Bluebell

While they are not in flower at present I just wanted you to know that I retired from corporate life in 2021 and planted these trees that winter. They are doing quite well.
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#WildflowerHour #WildflowerAllotment Field Woundwort reaching for the sun

#favouriteplant for #wildflowerhour Bog pimpernel present in quality wet meadows.

Very few flowers about as the heat and drought hit SE really struggles to recover despite some recent rain, but this resilient patch of Common Michaelmas-Daisy (Symphyotrichum × salignum) doing great work feeding the equally resilient Small Copper butterfly #WildflowerHour

#WildflowerHour #WildflowerAllotment Henbit Deadnettle in a sea of greenery.

Square-stalked St John's Wort was the second of my two UK lifers for #WildflowerHour this year. At @rspbengland.bsky.social Strumpshaw Fen in August. #FavouritePlant

#WildflowerHour #FavouritePlant I can't leave out beautiful Butterfly orchids! I always get mixed up between greater and lesser, but I love their name even though to me they look like angels! #Cumbria in June. @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

#WildflowerHour #WildflowerAllotment Small White Butterfly on wild radish.

Tea plant from yesterday's Norfolk Flora group meeting @bsbibotany.bsky.social #wildflowerhour

#Wildflowerhour #MyFavouritePlant. Hard to choose just one, however it has to be the beautiful Small White Orchid (Pseudorchis albida). I saw this rare diminutive flower for the first time back in June in North Yorkshire.

The bluebells in Foxley Wood were especially spectacular this spring #WildFlowerHour #FavouritePlant

Who could not love Yellow Nonea Nonea lutea? A surprise find spreading in grass in South Wraxall - immediately a #FavouritePlant for the year #WildflowerHour

Another #wildflowerhour #FavouritePlant was this gorgeous Hedgehog Clover Trifolium echinatum found in a Hampshire field in July. Second ever for Hampshire, last one over 60 yrs ago. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Wild clary from yesterday's Norfolk Flora group meeting @bsbibotany.bsky.social #wildflowerhour