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lycomorpha.bsky.social
5. Apetalous catchfly

Like little paper lanterns under the northern lights. This flower is found as far north as Greenland and Svalbard.

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A colour pencil and watercolour drawing of apetalous catchfly, Silene uralensis, showing plants growing among small pebbles. The plants have kind of egg shaped papery pink lantern flowers, thin stems, and small grey green strap like leaves.
December 8, 2025 at 6:48 PM
jbtheexplorer.bsky.social
A look back at some of the bird visitors in my native gardens this year.

#Birds #Wisconsin #NativePlants #NativeGarden #wildlife
An American robin fledgling on a pile of dogwood branches. Wild geranium and eastern red columbine can be seen blooming in the background. A house wren returning to the nest box with food for its chicks. A ruby throated hummingbird visiting royal catchfly. A female mallard duck swimming in my garden pond.
December 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
ians4ad.bsky.social
Night flowering catchfly flowering in the Norfolk gloom. Huge plant for round here too. @bsbibotany.bsky.social #wildflowerhour
Catchfly flower Catchfly plant
November 23, 2025 at 8:22 PM
kentgrasshoppers.bsky.social
Darn! Missed #wildflowerhour last night! But here's my #Winter10 from last week - better late than never. Names in alt-text. All from @rspb.bsky.social's Dungeness reserve, except for the Butcher's-broom which is from a local hedgerow. @wildflowerhour.bsky.social #KentNature
Left to right, top to bottom: Bramble, Elder, Common Stork's-bill, Thrift, Spear Thistle, Viper's-bugloss, Nottingham Catchfly, Wood Sage, Common Gorse, Butcher's-broom.
November 24, 2025 at 10:53 AM
lawrencelighthill.bsky.social
Posted especially for Mike’s mom. This photo was taken on July 8, 2023, in Trinity County, Northern California of a Cardinal Catchfly flower and flower buds. I was exploring near Pine Root Saddle and noticed an open area with flowers. #wildflowers #photography #nature #NorthernCalifornia
November 19, 2025 at 3:31 PM
mayfieldbirder.bsky.social
Nottingham Catchfly Silene nutans still in flower at Dungeness this weekend for #WildflowerHour
November 16, 2025 at 8:17 PM
sylvatica2024.bsky.social
Small-flowering Catchfly, my star find today, unfortunately I found it as it was getting dark (thus grainy photos). Fallow arable field near Polperro today. #wildflowerhour

Silene gallica var. gallica
November 16, 2025 at 8:26 PM
doodlemancy.com
in my obsidian notes i also have a list of plant/flower theme art i'd like to do at some point for all the major characters (flower meanings taken from an 1865 book called "The Miniature Language Of Flowers") but god knows if and when i'll get around to it. possibly work-into-backgrounds kinda stuff
someday i'll get around to the flower/plant theme art maybe Petra - Harebell (Grief) Sykes - Ground Laurel (Perseverance) Erika - White Catchfly (Betrayal) Carson - Chamomile ("Energy in adversity") Kell - Oats ("The witching soul of music") Maddie - Lily of the Valley ("Return of happiness") Dimitri - Forget-Me-Not (this one's pretty obvious) Ryfka - Rudbeckia (Justice) Elemere - Yew (Sorrow) Viktor - Daily Rose ("Thy smile I aspire to") Sedgwick - Foxtail Amaranth ("Hopeless, not heartless")
November 7, 2025 at 11:53 AM
lycomorpha.bsky.social
One of my favourite big sketchbook pages. I might be a bit quieter than usual this week. So int meantime, please enjoy this crab/lichen/catchfly! #SciArt
A big A3 sketchbook page covered in watercolour and pencil sketches of a crab, lichens, and catchfly plants. The Atlantic lyre crab has a teardrop shaped dark red body, long thin walking legs and big pinchy front crabby legs. The pelt lichen has lots of big leathery irregular green lobes with round black fruiting bodies. The arctic catchfly plants have small strap like grey-green leaves, long thin stems, and flowers like bulbous paper lanterns. There's little test swatches of colour all over the place, and scrawled illegible notes that I can't read without my drawing specs on (sorry.)
November 4, 2025 at 6:13 PM
william-curtis.harpo.nl

Your daily dose of botanical drawings from the Botanical Magazine.

Penpulous catchfly (Silene pendula)
Plate 114 in volume 4, 1791.

#magazine #artist #plants #curtis #botany

Plate 114: Penpulous catchfly (Silene pendula)
November 4, 2025 at 4:40 PM
notfrangible.bsky.social
Star of the arable Upavon site was Night-flowering Catchfly - masses of it 😍 #WildflowerHour
October 26, 2025 at 7:59 PM
debbie1alston.bsky.social
Nottingham Catchfly in flower this week on Dungerness RSPB reserve #wildflowerhour
October 19, 2025 at 7:23 PM
tillingtonchum.bsky.social
I was surprised to find a couple of flowers on one of our Nottingham Catchfly plants today.
October 17, 2025 at 8:33 PM
kattekopjes.bsky.social
Maria Sibylla Merian, Watercolour with flowers and insects (1691?) Collection: Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main

#art #watercolour #17thcentury #flowers #insects
Catchfly with admiral, rose with fox moth, iris, hoverfly, jewel beetle and orchid
October 17, 2025 at 2:50 PM
wxdave.bsky.social
#NowBlooming
Prairie Blazing Star
Royal Flycatch
Partridge Pea
There are no less than 100 bumble bees of various shapes and sizes currently in my yard
#NativePlants
Pink prairie blazing star Royal catchfly Partridge Pea
August 2, 2025 at 3:39 PM
lycomorpha.bsky.social
I've been feeling sad & vexed today (as every day) by how much a gov't of self-serving wankspangled Tory dick-limpets have destroyed our NHS services.

But to avoid melting my brain too much, let's look at a pretty plant that can survive pretty far up in Svalbard.

Ok. That's better. Onwards. 🌿💖
A colour pencil drawing of a catchfly or campion plant in flower, labelled "apetalous catchfly, Silene uralensis." It has balloon shaped pink flowers atop thin stems, and short strap-shaped glaucous leaves. Mist of the leaves are basal, but there's a few on the stems. It's growing up among grey pebbles.
December 18, 2023 at 11:30 PM
trisnorton.bsky.social
It's peak May delight in the garden. Catchflies and Campions really providing the goods. Sticky Catchfly, Italian Catchfly and Sea Campion.
May 17, 2025 at 7:03 PM
lesdecay.posts.art
Thank you all so much for coming! Playing Hades with you all was super fun, and we're so happy you liked the model! 😊
- Pink Jester 🦎 & Catchfly 🌷
January 1, 2025 at 6:22 AM
isiavash.bsky.social
صبح بخیر

Good Morning 🌨
#flower
#fleur
#rain
#cold
Polar campion, Silene uralensis This perennial Arctic plant goes by many names: cockle, nodding campion, mountain campion, apetalous catchfly, mountain catchfly, and nodding catchfly. While it does attract pollinators like bees and butterflies, it does not (as some of its names suggest) catch flies. From : nexta-expeditions.com
February 23, 2025 at 4:35 AM
teuchterbynature.bsky.social
Wildlife garden always looks a bit too pink with the dominant campion. Going to add some mullein and have night scented catchfly coming on in seed trays. Willow Fedge coming on nicely though, should be an effective screen next yr #Gardenwild #GardeningTwitter #nomowmay
January 28, 2025 at 1:51 PM
kogoshuko.bsky.social
Night-Flowering Catchfly. As you can imagine by its name, this flower opens up in the evening! It is an introduced species to the area and is considered a nuisance to crop farming. #wildflowers #bloomscrolling
May 14, 2025 at 10:24 AM
saunieindiego.bsky.social
Catchfly prairie gentian (Eustoma exaltatum) blooming along the Colorado River today. #ArizonaNative #NativePlant
August 17, 2025 at 2:24 AM
jbtheexplorer.bsky.social
I remember when I used to wish that hummingbirds would visit my yard more. Native plants did the trick. Especially royal catchfly (pictured below) and cardinal flower.

#nativeplants #birds #nativegarden
August 28, 2025 at 1:20 AM
kerfuffle.bsky.social
A commission for @robocryptid.bsky.social of Siuan from Wheel of Time! I know nothing about this series but she seems good!

Flower meanings:
🌿 silverweed (green leaves): simplicity
💮 white catchfly (white): betrayal
🌺 protea (pink & yellow): courage, resilience
🌸 rose acacia (pink): secret love
Digital art of a bust of Siuan from Wheel of Time, with her hair down and eyes closed. SE is framed by several kinds of flowers and fans of green leaves.
August 21, 2023 at 7:49 PM