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Managed by Alastair Hotchkiss, BSBI Wales Officer - Promoting the enjoyment, study and recording of wild plants in Wales / Hyrwyddo’r mywnhad, astudiaeth, a chofnodi planhigion gwyllt yng Nghymru. @bsbibotany.bsky.social
Sunny D would be nice for sundews.
October 16, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Sunny D would be nice for sundews.
Eurinllys tonnog (Hypericum undulatum) yn sir Benfro / Wavy St. John’s-wort in Pembrokeshire.
September 23, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Eurinllys tonnog (Hypericum undulatum) yn sir Benfro / Wavy St. John’s-wort in Pembrokeshire.
Welsh Mudwort / Lleidlys Cymreig (Limosella australis) by the Afon Dysynni. The water boatman and small fish joined me in admiring this little plant.
September 23, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Welsh Mudwort / Lleidlys Cymreig (Limosella australis) by the Afon Dysynni. The water boatman and small fish joined me in admiring this little plant.
Very different looking seeds between Drosera anglica (gwlithlys mawr / great sundew) and D intermedia (gwlithlys hirddail / oblong-leaved sundew). In the hybrid between D anglica and D rotundifolia the seed pods don’t really open and the seeds are just soft pale brown bits. #sundews #drosera
September 23, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Fossil swamp-forest plants at Brymbo, Wrexham - where 300 million years ago giant lycopods (clubmosses) like Lepidodendron towered to over 120ft tall with massive horsetails like Calamites! Amazing to be able to see these at Stori Brymbo.
August 4, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Fossil swamp-forest plants at Brymbo, Wrexham - where 300 million years ago giant lycopods (clubmosses) like Lepidodendron towered to over 120ft tall with massive horsetails like Calamites! Amazing to be able to see these at Stori Brymbo.
Great few days at the BSBI Wales Annual Summer meeting in Denbighshire this week / cawsom dri diwrnod gwych yng nghyfarfod haf blynyddol BSBI Cymru yn sir Ddinbych.
August 1, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Great few days at the BSBI Wales Annual Summer meeting in Denbighshire this week / cawsom dri diwrnod gwych yng nghyfarfod haf blynyddol BSBI Cymru yn sir Ddinbych.
Galeopsis speciosa (large flowered hemp nettle / y benboeth amryliw) in Montgomeryshire today, with its leaf beetle Chrysolina fastuosa.
July 14, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Galeopsis speciosa (large flowered hemp nettle / y benboeth amryliw) in Montgomeryshire today, with its leaf beetle Chrysolina fastuosa.
Here’s a tranquil little video of a cool mountain stream on Cadair Idris with Intermediate Water-Starwort (Callitriche brutia subsp. hamulata), with spanner-like tips to its narrow leaves.
July 11, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Here’s a tranquil little video of a cool mountain stream on Cadair Idris with Intermediate Water-Starwort (Callitriche brutia subsp. hamulata), with spanner-like tips to its narrow leaves.
Two Welsh endemic trees on the limestone in Breconshire - Welsh whitebeam (Sobus cambrensis) and lesser whitebeam (Sorbus minima) - particularly smitten with minima. #Sorbus #whitebeams
May 8, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Two Welsh endemic trees on the limestone in Breconshire - Welsh whitebeam (Sobus cambrensis) and lesser whitebeam (Sorbus minima) - particularly smitten with minima. #Sorbus #whitebeams
True service tree / Cerddinen Morgannwg - the service tree of Glamorgan (Sorbus domestica) on the breezy cliff top above the Bristol Channel / Môr Hafren. #sorbusdomestica #highupplants
May 8, 2025 at 6:55 PM
True service tree / Cerddinen Morgannwg - the service tree of Glamorgan (Sorbus domestica) on the breezy cliff top above the Bristol Channel / Môr Hafren. #sorbusdomestica #highupplants
Super to find #HighUpPlants of Salix herbacea (Dwarf Willow) on Friday - a first record for 50 years on this hill, and hectad #NatureNetworks #RhwydweithiauNatur #wildflowerhour
May 4, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Super to find #HighUpPlants of Salix herbacea (Dwarf Willow) on Friday - a first record for 50 years on this hill, and hectad #NatureNetworks #RhwydweithiauNatur #wildflowerhour
Went to search for a little white flower on the Llŷn today - Didn’t find it, but saw other white-flowered beauties! Incl. Pale dog-violet (Viola lactea), white ramping fumitory (Fumaria capreolata), and field mouse-ear (Cerastium arvense). #NatureNetworks #RhwydweithiauNatur
April 28, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Went to search for a little white flower on the Llŷn today - Didn’t find it, but saw other white-flowered beauties! Incl. Pale dog-violet (Viola lactea), white ramping fumitory (Fumaria capreolata), and field mouse-ear (Cerastium arvense). #NatureNetworks #RhwydweithiauNatur
Hutchinsia / beryn y graig (Hornungia petraea) in the dunes at Whiteford Burrows NNR, Gower v.c.41. #cabbagefamily #wildflowerhour
April 27, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Hutchinsia / beryn y graig (Hornungia petraea) in the dunes at Whiteford Burrows NNR, Gower v.c.41. #cabbagefamily #wildflowerhour
For #wildflowerhour this week, they’re not #treeflowers but flowers that are nonetheless reliant on a tree! Toothwort / Deintlys (Lathraea squamaria), parasitic on the roots of the amazing old native black poplar in the car park by the River Severn in Newtown, Powys.
April 13, 2025 at 6:35 PM
For #wildflowerhour this week, they’re not #treeflowers but flowers that are nonetheless reliant on a tree! Toothwort / Deintlys (Lathraea squamaria), parasitic on the roots of the amazing old native black poplar in the car park by the River Severn in Newtown, Powys.
Two cracking crucifers from different ends of Wales this week - Yellow whitlowgrass / Llysiau‘r-bystwn melyn (Draba aizoides) going to seed on Gower yesterday, and Alpine pennycress / Codywasg y mwynfeydd (Noccaea caerulescens) flowering in Gwydir Forest earlier in the week.
April 13, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Two cracking crucifers from different ends of Wales this week - Yellow whitlowgrass / Llysiau‘r-bystwn melyn (Draba aizoides) going to seed on Gower yesterday, and Alpine pennycress / Codywasg y mwynfeydd (Noccaea caerulescens) flowering in Gwydir Forest earlier in the week.
Stunning #woodlandplants from the limestone woods in Denbighshire - yellow star-of-Bethlehem (Gagea lutea), wild daffodil (Narcissus pseudonarcissus) and early dog-violet (Viola reichenbachiana) #wildflowerhour
April 6, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Stunning #woodlandplants from the limestone woods in Denbighshire - yellow star-of-Bethlehem (Gagea lutea), wild daffodil (Narcissus pseudonarcissus) and early dog-violet (Viola reichenbachiana) #wildflowerhour
Two black-blotchy-leaved #woodlandplants together, Arum maculatum (lords-and-ladies etc) & Orchis mascula (early-purple orchids). #wildflowerhour
April 6, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Two black-blotchy-leaved #woodlandplants together, Arum maculatum (lords-and-ladies etc) & Orchis mascula (early-purple orchids). #wildflowerhour
April 3, 2025 at 4:20 PM
#WoodAnemone this week - its Welsh name is Blodyn y Gwynt (the flower of the wind), but another old local name is Bara Caws (cheese bread!) #wildflowerhour
March 23, 2025 at 7:53 PM
#WoodAnemone this week - its Welsh name is Blodyn y Gwynt (the flower of the wind), but another old local name is Bara Caws (cheese bread!) #wildflowerhour
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Mae dau gyhoeddiad BSBI bellach ar gael yn y Gymraeg. Diolch i Raglen #RhwydweithiauNatur Llywodraeth Cymru, a ddarperir gan y Gronfa Dreftadaeth.
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March 22, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Yn galw ar fotanegwyr sy'n siarad cymraeg!
Mae dau gyhoeddiad BSBI bellach ar gael yn y Gymraeg. Diolch i Raglen #RhwydweithiauNatur Llywodraeth Cymru, a ddarperir gan y Gronfa Dreftadaeth.
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Mae dau gyhoeddiad BSBI bellach ar gael yn y Gymraeg. Diolch i Raglen #RhwydweithiauNatur Llywodraeth Cymru, a ddarperir gan y Gronfa Dreftadaeth.
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Calling Welsh-speaking botanists!
Two BSBI publications are now available in Welsh, thanks to funding from the #NatureNetworks Programme, delivered by the Heritage Fund, on behalf of the Welsh Government:
So You Want to Know Your Plants
BSBI Code of Conduct
Download them here bsbi.org/cymru
Two BSBI publications are now available in Welsh, thanks to funding from the #NatureNetworks Programme, delivered by the Heritage Fund, on behalf of the Welsh Government:
So You Want to Know Your Plants
BSBI Code of Conduct
Download them here bsbi.org/cymru
March 22, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Calling Welsh-speaking botanists!
Two BSBI publications are now available in Welsh, thanks to funding from the #NatureNetworks Programme, delivered by the Heritage Fund, on behalf of the Welsh Government:
So You Want to Know Your Plants
BSBI Code of Conduct
Download them here bsbi.org/cymru
Two BSBI publications are now available in Welsh, thanks to funding from the #NatureNetworks Programme, delivered by the Heritage Fund, on behalf of the Welsh Government:
So You Want to Know Your Plants
BSBI Code of Conduct
Download them here bsbi.org/cymru
Blue anemone #GardenEscapes on the verge just outside the village. Not 100% sure yet if Anemone blanda or A apennina (opinions welcome!) - leaves are sparsely hairy underneath so leaning towards A apennina. #wildflowerhour
March 16, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Blue anemone #GardenEscapes on the verge just outside the village. Not 100% sure yet if Anemone blanda or A apennina (opinions welcome!) - leaves are sparsely hairy underneath so leaning towards A apennina. #wildflowerhour
Tormaen porffor (Saxifraga oppositifolia) yng Nghwm Idwal heddiw. Hyfryd! / beautiful Purple saxifrage in Cwm Idwal today. #Eryri #Saxifraga
March 15, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Tormaen porffor (Saxifraga oppositifolia) yng Nghwm Idwal heddiw. Hyfryd! / beautiful Purple saxifrage in Cwm Idwal today. #Eryri #Saxifraga
I love Powys in the springtime. Celandine, coltsfoot, opposite-leaved golden saxifrage, primrose #yellowflowers / Dwi'n caru Powys yn y gwanwyn. Llygad Ebrill, Carn yr ebol, Eglyn cyferbynddail, Briallu #blodaumelyn #wildflowerhour
March 9, 2025 at 7:08 PM
I love Powys in the springtime. Celandine, coltsfoot, opposite-leaved golden saxifrage, primrose #yellowflowers / Dwi'n caru Powys yn y gwanwyn. Llygad Ebrill, Carn yr ebol, Eglyn cyferbynddail, Briallu #blodaumelyn #wildflowerhour
Lluglys gludiog (Silene viscaria) yn haul y gwanwyn heddiw /Sticky catchfly (Silene viscaria) flowering in the early spring sun today.
March 5, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Lluglys gludiog (Silene viscaria) yn haul y gwanwyn heddiw /Sticky catchfly (Silene viscaria) flowering in the early spring sun today.