We have another dozen talks still to go, with the next four being:

🟢Getting started with Rushes

🟢Leylandii and their look-a-likes

🟢10 Years of the National Plant Monitoring Scheme

🟢 Clubmosses of Ireland and Britain

All of these can be booked from this page: bsbi.org/botanical-sk...

Joining you in noticing family Asteraceae, the family most prominently in flower right now in NYC.

That showy red flower is some sort of Abutilon, a genus in family Malvaceae. It is sometimes called flowering maple because its leaves resemble those of maple trees.