Devon Botany

We'd like to develop a Devon twitter plant community to share finds, ask questions and inspire. Please use #wildflowerdevon and share the love for our plants! If you need help with ID just add #wildflowerID

Bright orange, mealy fruits of Quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa) seen growing near Sidmouth, Devon today 🧡 #Wildflowers @BSBIbotany @DABotany

Sharp-leaved Fluellen (Kickxia elatine), Sand Toadflax (Linaria arenaria), Snapdragon (Antirrhinum) and Round-leaved Fluellen (K. spuria) in Devon and Dorset @BSBIbotany @DABotany 💛💚

Marsh Helleborine (Epipactis palustris), Marsh Fragrant Orchid (Gymnadenia densiflora) & the star of the show Autumn Lady’s Tresses (Spiranthes spiralis) 🤍 thanks to @HardingRogerC for showing me these orchids at Braunton Burrows today 🙏 @BSBIbotany @DABotany @ukorchids

One I’ve wanted to see for a while - White Horehound (Marrubium vulgare). A scarce native in the south it’s a tomentose plant with 10 distinctive hooked calyx teeth 🤍💚 @BSBIbotany #BrauntonBurrows #WildFlowers @DABotany

What does wildlife conservation mean to you? Is it protecting people, species, biodiversity or something else? Please take my quick survey and spread the word: rebeccanesbit.com/what-does-cons… #EarthDay

Regeneration of #mossy landscapes on #Dartmoor A chance to hear more about the roles of these small and often unnoticed plants – as pioneers, as preservers of history and in our changing environment. Mon 11 Dec 6.30-7.30pm via Zoom Reserve your free place: eventbrite.co.uk/e/770210589607…

@Trichocolea Beautiful!

Some delicate subtlety from rushes, grasses and sedges for #WildflowerHour

Dartmoor's Blanket Bogs anewnatureblog.com/2023/04/11/dar… via @MilesKing10 A fab price of evidence based explanation. Please share. @DABotany @dartmoornpa @AndyNisbet1

@TrisNorton @BSBIbotany @FernBPS Ah, good to know it’s still thriving there

@TrisNorton @BSBIbotany @FernBPS Was that alongside the footpath that runs a little south of Park Wood?

Clematis aka Old Man's Beard at Dawlish Warren for #WildflowerHour

From the heart of a temperate rainforest in Dartmoor, Dr Alison Smith explains why these woodlands are extraordinary - and desperately need our help. Donate to our appeal ➡️ bit.ly/3KhPOP6

Had a great time delivering a lichen event last month for the #ExmouthTreeProject in Phaer Park. Here, we recorded two IUCN red listed species in this urban parkland, Parmelina carporrhizans (top) on ash & Physcia tribacioides (bottom) on copper beech. Who would have thought it!

The absolute stunner that is Alyxoria (Opegrapha) subelevata (IUCN Endangered) growing on the strikingly red sandstone cliffs along the Teign Estuary (#Devon). At this site, the black squiggly, densely pruinose fruits can only be accessed at low tide. Thanks for the intro Nicola!

With most of the Warren a parched golden yellow the #Coastalplants are still providing some colour. Sea Holly, Rock Samphire (& Black Mining Bee Andrena pilipes), Wild Carrot (with Kiefferia pericarpilcola galls) and from 2021 a rayless Sea Aster var. flosculosus #WildflowerHour

Found 2 new ones for my list on the cliffs around Torquay. Sea Plantain, Plantago maritima and Common Sea Lavender, Limonium vulgare. @DABotany @BSBIbotany

Vibrant but rare Deptford Pink doing well on a road verge in Buckfastleigh, Devon #wildflowerhour @JWentomologist @speciesrecovery

Black Medick pod (and mucronate tip on leaves - that almost read microwave tip...) for #wildflowerhour @DABotany