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BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland retweeted
Plant knowledge becoming more popular! Cambridge University botanic garden @CUBotanicgarden joins UK others offering short courses plant vocabulary and ID. See also @BSBIbotany Identiplant (enrols December), Plantlife @Love_plants, Field Studies Council @FieldStudiesC #BUC2026
ALT Image screengrab article from newspaper. Image of Vaccinium vitis idaea flower, fruit. For more informatio see: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/28/cambridge-university-botany-course-charles-darwin-john-stevens-henslow
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Wild cowslips (Primula veris) are a seriously rare sight in Liverpool. Find out how we’re bringing them back! 🌱❤️
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Sometimes when we are botanising we can forget to look up! Which would be a shame as #treeflowers are both fascinating & beautiful! This week’s challenge is to go looking for wild & naturalised trees that are blooming. Share your finds for #WildflowerHour this Sunday 8-9pm!
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It's Sunday, it's 8pm so it must be #WildFlowerHour! Please share pix of any wild or naturalised plants you saw in bloom last week across Britain & Ireland inc any #storyplants.
Mystery plant?
Use #WildFlowerID to summon help from friendly @wildflower_hour botanists
Salix alba, white willow, along #ThamesPath for #wildflowerhour #StoryPlants
Willow bark contains salicin, a painkiller when chewed or boiled in water, also wound-cleaner and gargle for sore throats. Cricket bat willow is hybrid of white and crack willow @TiCLme @BSBIbotany
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Lots now for #Wildflowerhour. Celandine, including some interesting bronze leaved variants, dogs mercury, pulmonaria, red dead nettle, green alkanet, goat willow, alexanders
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Mar 15
Three Portuguese Heath plants growing out of the side of a roadside wall in Chacewater Cornwall today. #WhiteFlowers #wildflowerhour
Erica lusitanica
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I'd hoped to find wood anemones in the woods yesterday (I didn't!), but I was rewarded instead by hundreds of sweet white violets-viola odorata-just in time for this week's #WhiteFlowers challenge for #wildflowerhour
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BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland retweeted
Mar 15
The naturalised hybrid bluebells have overtaken the native ones and are now in full flower in Chacewater Cornwall today. Blue and pink flowered plants next to each other.
#wildflowerhour
Hyacinthoides x massartiana
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BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland retweeted
#WhiteFlowers are beautiful so I’m glad this was the #Wildflowerhour challenge.
The little Barren Strawberry has lovely heart shaped petals 🤍 and despite being bedraggled by the recent winds, the Feverfew flower still resolutely looked to the sun.
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A Wood forget-me-not in its typical habitat of a pavement and not a wood. Chacewater Cornwall today. #wildflowerhour
Myosotis sylvatica
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BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland retweeted
Mar 15
#WhiteFlowers for #WildflowerHour
Something about white flowers draws the eye.
Perhaps because they appear so simply — a pale star in the hedgebank, a quiet flicker in the woodland.
You notice them almost before you realise you are looking.
And suddenly spring is everywhere.
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BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland retweeted
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Three cornered leek #wildflowerhour #whiteflowers 🍃
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Mar 15
The green pendant flowers of Redcurrant, flowering by a wooded path in Chacewater Cornwall today. I also saw a few Gooseberry bushes, but they're not in flower yet (beware the spines on those). #wildflowerhour
Ribes rubrum
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Mar 15
It’s #WildflowerHour, and this evening we have this beautiful white form of Sweet Violet for #WhiteFlowers
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Mar 15
Appearing naturalised, but it's hard to tell sometimes, a Flowering Currant bush next to a streamside path in Chacewater Cornwall today. #wildflowerhour
Ribes sanguineum
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BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland retweeted
Like the way the buds of white comfrey unfurl #whiteflowers #wildflowerhour
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Mar 15
Buffish / Chocolate mining bee visiting Alexanders
#wildflowerhour #bees
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BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland retweeted
I’m hoping the cream flowers of Climbing Corydalis, Ceratocapnos claviculata won’t be too far off theme for this week’s #WhiteFlowers challenge for #wildflowerhour
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BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland retweeted
Mar 15
A native Bluebell, Musk Storksbill and a #WhiteFlowers Sea mouse-ear from Falmouth yesterday for #wildflowerhour
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