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Just the one contribution for #WildflowerHour this week but it's quite a special one for me - Bush Vetch growing as a weed in a flower bed in central #Bristol on Wednesday. I suspect it had escaped from a nearby wildflower planted area, but a new species for me either way. #Bloomscrolling #botany #plants #flowers #wildflowers #photography

A vetch plant with pinnate leaves and pinkish-purple flowers. The flowers are quite large for a vetch but nothing like as big as sweet peas. The leaflets on the pinnate leaves are broader nearer the leaf stem, which is a good ID feature for Bush Vetch.

Unusually mild this week, I saw annual fleabane and Mexican fleabane flowering in the city of Amersfoort
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A daisy-like flower with a yellow heart an white petals on a nearly dried out stem

Daisy-like flowers on an old city wall, water and a watergate in the background

Close by those small white brassicas, almost in the ditch, were small Ramping Fumitory. Their coloration reminds me of the now-distant summer, with Burnt Orchids.

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A cluster of long tubular (not really trumpet-like) white flowers, some with a touch of pink, turning deep red/burgundy at the tip

Out and about in rather mild weather in Dorset this week, spotted two small white brassicas in the roadside verge: Hairy Bittercress and Shepherd's Purse

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Hairy Bittercress: small white flowers with very upright, long seed pods

Small white-flowered brassica with distinctive heart-shaped seed pods: Shepherd's Purse

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A collage of wildflowers I’ve seen over the last few days.

14/12/2025 - December's a tough time of year to find any wild flowers. A walk on the quiet roads today. There wasn't much about. A single lovely pink purslane was my favourite of the day. A few bedraggled dandelions. Cow parsley that really shouldn't be in flower. Early shoots of lesser celandine, it must be nearly spring already! 😃

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A single flower of pink purslane. I was surprised to see this summer flower in flower!

Tiny white flowers of cow parsley. At least I think it's cow parsley but it does seem very much an odd time of year for it.

Early shoots of lesser celandine. These flower late Feb/early March so nice to see the green leaves already up.

Primrose in flower locally #WildflowerHour

Pale yellow Primrose flower, with some buds to follow too.

A nice patch of White Deadnettle was in full flower at #Slimbridge yesterday. These plants don't seem to have noticed the weather. #WildflowerHour #Gloucestershire #Bloomscrolling #botany #plants #flowers #wildflowers #photography

A plant with green nettle-shaped leaves and large white flowers.

I went hunting around the centre of #Bristol during a break in this week's steady rain, but most of the remaining flowers were looking rather tatty. Except Groundsel, which can cope with pretty much anything. #WildflowerHour #Bloomscrolling #botany #plants #flowers #wildflowers #photography

A cluster of yellow flowers, each a bit like the centre of a daisy (more accurately like the centre of a ragwort) with no ray petals.

A scruffy Pot Marigold for #WildflowerHour

A weather damaged, orange Pot Marigold flower

A rather subdued set of photos for #WildflowerHour this week. The weather was terrible most of the week and most species were keeping their heads down. Guernsey Fleabane, Fox and Cubs, Shepherd's Purse and Red Deadnettle in different states of opening. #Swindon #Wiltshire #WildflowerHour #Bloomscrolling #botany #plants #flowers #wildflowers #photography