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Jenny Harris
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Retired paediatric dentist | Consultant emeritus/HonSL | #PhDbypublication | #RightsFromTheStart | #CPDT | #WNBCYP | #DentistsWithHerons | #AnOrchidAWeek | Own views
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Since we started doing #NoMowMay in 2020, I’ve been hoping for an orchid to pop up in my lawn. But I’ll take two Pink Waxcap (Porpolomopsis calyptriformis)!
AKA Ballerina Waxcap… of course they are 🩰
#MushroomMonday #fungi #mushroom
Two pink mushrooms surrounded by grass, the smaller one sheltering under the cap of the other. The stipes white, with a twist.
November 3, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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I was photographing Reed Buntings on a path through the reed beds, when I was distracted by these bright golden flower heads. Could it be Buttonweed? #wildflowerhour #wildflowerID @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social
October 26, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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A confused Cowslip on an otherwise very autumnal day at YWT Potteric Carr, Doncaster
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October 26, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Utterly bonkers about conkers!

Horse Chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum)
#autumn #conkers
A pocketful of shiny conkers and their cases, tipped on to a kitchen worktop The yellow-green spiky case of a ripe conker has split open to reveal the shiny chestnut-brown fruit inside
September 16, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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A floral display fringing the pond at Gloucester Services Southbound. Great Willowherb, Purple Loosestrife, Flowering-rush and the twirly-fruits of Meadowsweet. Overhead swallows and dragonflies locked in aerial combat.
#wildflowerhour #M5botany
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August 17, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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I love it when the #wildflowerhour challenge prompts me to find a plant I’ve never noticed before. Could this be Trifid Bur Marigold (Bidens tripartita)?
On the banks of Damflask Reservoir, Loxley Valley, Sheffield
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August 17, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Common Hemp-nettle (Galeopsis tetrahit) growing alongside Common Nettle (Urticaria dioica) at Thornhill NR, Bamford, Derbyshire
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August 10, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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I was photographing bees on Common Knapweed (Centaurea nigra) when I spied something HUGE and GOLD out of the corner of my eye 😳.
Hornet-mimic #Hoverfly (Volucella zonaria).
Hope Valley, Derbyshire
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Gold and black striped hoverfly, looking far smaller in the photo than it did in real life!
August 10, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Green-veined White #butterfly on Great Willowherb (Epilobium hirsutum) for #wildflowerhour #PollinatorPals challenge. The flower’s landing pad is helpfully marked out with a cross, that of a 4-lobed stigma.
Hope Valley, Derbyshire
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Green-veined White butterfly feasting at the purplish-pink flowers of a head-high forest of Great Willowherb
August 10, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Tiny as they are, eyebrights (Euphrasia spp.) always catch my attention. Here growing on the floor of a disused limestone quarry, at the butterfly heaven that is Hoe Grange Quarry, Derbyshire

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August 3, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Large leafy divided bracts, dark red central flower, umbels form a ball after flowering, spiny fruits.

It must be Wild Carrot (Daucus carota), here buffeted by the wind on the approach road to Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire

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August 3, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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My camera was trained on this rather scruffy skipper when I realised it had led me to a plant new to me that I recognised from #wildflowerhour!

Wild Basil (Clinopodium vulgare) at Hoe Grange Quarry, Derbyshire
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August 3, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Three of the #DeadnettleFamily growing in the wall of Hind Wheel Dam, #RivelinValley, Sheffield.
Hedge Woundwort, Water Mint and Skullcap (x2).
Pleased to report neither phone nor glasses were lost overboard while taking these pictures, just a little dignity
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Hedge Woundwort (Stachys sylvatica) Water Mint (Mentha aquatica) Skullcap (Scutellaria galericulata), showing the pairs of violet flowers Skullcap (Scutellaria galericulata), showing the developing fruit
July 27, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Harebells were outnumbered by drifts of Small Scabious in the Yorkshire Dales nature reserves we explored this week, but there’s always something special about those perfect papery bells nodding in the breeze.
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July 20, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Lesser Meadow-rue (Thalictrum minus)

One of many gorgeous plants seen on limestone pavements in the Yorkshire Dales this week. But this one was so dainty and hard to spot, it could be wearing an invisibility cloak
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July 20, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Field Scabious. Not the hairiest of #hairyplants, but it was the favourite of bees and butterflies on the #MonsalTrail this week. And it’s the one I’ve chosen for this evening’s #wildflowerhour challenge
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Three flower heads of Field Scabious (Knautia arvensis) seen at different angles, also showing the hairy stem
July 13, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Growing side-by-side at the mouth of a spring. Watercress (Nasturtium officinale) and Fool’s Watercress (Helosciadium nodiflorum). Today at a butterfly-filled Gloucestershire SSSI
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June 22, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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For the #wildflowerhour #urbanplants challenge, I was determined to put a name to one I usually walk past with barely a glance. I think this is Nipplewort (Lapsana communis) at Bingham Park, Sheffield.
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A slender multi-branched yellow-flowered plant grows out of the wall at the edge of a pond in an urban park. In the background, a moorhen paddles past Close-up of the yellow flowers and buds
June 15, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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A riot of colour as good as any well-kept garden border. This is the bank beside a stream in my local park. Water Forget-me-not, watercress and Monkeyflower.
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Lush vegetation at the edge of a stream with hundreds of blue, yellow and white flowers A crescent of Water Forget-me-not flowers. Pale blue with yellow and white centres Clusters of white flowers on dark green stems. I couldn’t get close enough to look at the fruits so am not sure exactly which species of water-cress we have here The bold yellow flowers of Monkeyflower, their throats dotted with red spots
June 15, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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This beautiful group of #orchids stood out in the sunlight as we entered a clearing from a shaded wooded valley. I’m thinking Dactylorhiza hybrids, but just enjoying them before I reach for the ID guide! Derbyshire
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Five orchid spikes picked out in the sunshine, amid lush green vegetation Close up of two orchid spikes, each mauve flower adorned with spits and loops
June 15, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Nothing to see here. Oh, really?

#duck #ducklings #mallard #PorterBrook #BinghamPark @everyheron.bsky.social
Female mallard on high alert, concealing her young family in the long grass Between the blades of grass, a long lens reveals downy bundles of fluff, each with a tiny duck bill None ducklings jostle for position while their mother still tries to keep them hidden Mother duck looks resigned as her unruly brood break cover. Time for a swim?
June 12, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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And now I’m finding it everywhere! A lifetime never noticing Round-leaved Crowfoot (Ranunculus omiophyllus) and now the 3rd site in a week 😁

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Ranunculus omiophyllus, a member of the buttercup family, growing in shallow water in an upland bog The tiny white flowers and rounded leaves of Ranunculus omiophyllus spread over the black peaty water surface of an upland bog
June 11, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Meadow Vetchling (Lathyrus pratensis), I think, with stripey visitor
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June 8, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Round-leaved Crowfoot (Ranunculus omiophyllus)

I love a treasure hunt so I enjoyed being given directions to a #Derbyshire upland stream to seek this out. Then, having got my eye in, was thrilled to find my own in a boggy ditch closer to home
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June 8, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Hemlock Water-dropwort (Oenanthe crocata)

A plant I have wanted to see for a while but an unexpected joy to see it growing in such profusion. Bees were busy collecting the wine-red pollen, sporting stylish pink pollen sacs

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June 8, 2025 at 7:03 PM