My absolute favourite 💙.Mertensia maritima, Oysterplant.Such a joy to see this gorgeous plant again this week! .Caithness #WildflowerHour

RT @DavidKentNature: Autumn gentian - first I have seen this year, and in a spot I'd not seen before, Shore Hill, Kemsing.#wildflowerhour h….

We had a proper old-fashioned day out #ByTheSea yesterday with ice cream & wildflowers galore! Clockwise from top right Carline Thistle, Eyebright, Harebell, the first Autumn Ladies Tresses, Sea Holly, Viper’s Bugloss, Ploughman’s Spikenard & a lighthouse!!! #WildflowerHour 🌊🍦

RT @thenewgalaxy: 27/7/25 Cumbria - Some years, #HuttonRoof treats us to a very interesting #orchid. It's clearly from the Epipactis phylla….

RT @SHeadbirder: Betony in Grafton Wood. #wildflowerhour #Deadnettlefamily

For the #DeadNettleFamily challenge the delightfully fuzzy headed flowers of Black Horehound, Ballota nigra always look a bit confused to me! The flowers are so worth a closer inspection as they are prettily pencilled with delicate markings 😍 #WildflowerHour

New to me this week but because I’d seen it on #WildflowerHour I knew exactly what it was! 🥰 Duke of Argyll’s Tea Plant, Lycium barbarum casually growing from the walls of Runcorn Castle. Introduced from China and closely related to the Goji Berry, Lycium chinense.

Just some rather damp Harebells from me this week for #WildflowerHour! They might be bedraggled but still beautiful for the #HarebellChallenge 💙💦

RT @wildflower_hour: Is there a wildflower more evocative of long summer days than the beautiful Harebell?! Campanula rotundifolia is of co….

RT @markhows: And finally after 4 previous attempts Alpine Woodsia, many thanks to those who helped for #wildflowerhour .

It’s been so hot this week that I’ve been keeping in the shade. I’ve had good company though, lots of gorgeous Broad-leaved Helleborines!!! Thankfully they haven’t chomped by deer this year! #WildflowerHour

RT @owensweden: Darwin wrote of this orchid: "The remarkable length of the nectary, containing much nectar, the white colour of the conspic….

RT @wildflower_hour: Some are stellate, glandular, forked, simple or branched. What are? I hear you ask! Hairs!This week’s challenge is to….

I adore this fascinating parasitic plant, it was so wonderful to see it again today! It was looking absolutely pristine too! 🥰.Yellow Bird’s-nest, Monotropa hypopitys 💛

This is my favourite from a wonderful day with @Mariposa_Nature at Hutton Roof. Epipactis x schmalhausenii, the love child between Dark Red and Broad-leaved Helleborine. Isn’t it an absolute stunner!!!! 😍#HelleborineChallenge #WildflowerHour

Epic day at Hutton Roof with @thenewgalaxy First for me, hybrid between Dark Red & Broad-leaved Helleborine & the different colour forms of Epipactis atropurpureans! Also an absolute treat to catch up with some pristine Monotropa hypopitys!! #HelleborineChallenge #WildflowerHour

RT @Mariposa_Nature: Postcard from the field, from our superb orchid tour leader @thenewgalaxy, leading two day trips this weekend to Helsi….

A brand new challenge this week!.

Spellbound by this amazing spectacle! A mass of stunning Seaholly set within a golden carpet of Kidney Vetch & punctuated by hundreds of the beautiful purple-tinted spires of Seaholly Broomrape, Orobanche minor var. pseudoamethystea!!! Absolutely dazzling!🤩.#wildflowerhour

RT @wildflower_hour: ‘Sedges have edges, rushes are round, grasses have nodes right down to the ground’ This week’s challenge is to find a….

Popped by to see another of my favourite wildflowers today. It has no leaves and indeed it contains no chlorophyll! This super-cool botanical vampire - the Ivy Broomrape, Orobanche hederae, obtains all of its nutrients from the Ivy it parasitises! #ParasiticPlants #wildflowerhour