Anglesey Flora Group

The #AngleseyFloraGroup are a group of amateur and professional #Botanists with a mission to explore & record VC 52's fascinating flora particularly it's rare & scarce plants. Our aim is to contribute to the next @BSBIbotany Atlas of the British Flora and a New Anglesey Flora.

I can finally see enough to take a few photos 🧐 The profusion of yellow flowers now joined in mid April by a few splashes of colour #wildflowerhour Tree Mallow, Herb Robert, Dove's-foot Crane's-bill, Dandelion, Cow Parsley & Lesser Celandine @AngleseyFlora

Some interesting Anglesey Records from the weekend: Genista anglica (nr. Trearddur) and Dicranocephalus agilis Spurge Bug (nr. Rhosneigr), also a new Anglesey site for Marpissa nivoyi (only 2nd N Wales location). @BritishBugs @AngleseyFlora @BritishSpiders @tanyptera @BSBICymru

🐝WANTED🐝: have you recorded any of these rare bumblebees in Wales? If so please send in your records to your Welsh LERC by the 24th May. @tanyptera @bwars2000 @BumblebeeTrust @LNPCymru @WardenEryri @m_harrow1 @sjthomasbotany @AngleseyFlora @North_Wales_WT

Day 1 of #30DaysWild - Catching up with the terns at Cemlyn. Finding leggy friends (Six-spot burnet & Yellow-tail moth caterpillars). Sniffing sea thrift.. phwoar! Seals, sea birds, shelducklings and a bonus Osprey low over the bay.

Finally got id on my meadow grasses with expert help from the incredible Anglesey County Flora Recorder, Nigel Brown. We found 21 species in a 2 hour walk around the meadows. #wildflowerhour @AngleseyFlora @PlantlifeCymru #MagnificentMeadowsCymru

An #orchid morning at Aberffraw #Anglesey whilst surveying @TwyniByw scrapes for tiny little annual rushes. 8 taxa all within a stones throw.

Alexanders flowering Christmas Eve #Anglesey for #wildflowerhour A native herb of Macedonia, brought to the UK by the Romans. The whole plant is edible but replaced in modern cuisine by celery. Supposed to taste like myrrh, whatever myrrh tastes like 🤔 @AngleseyFlora

Found 15 for this week's #wildflowerhour #thewinter10 @AngleseyFlora Creeping Buttercup, Gorse, Ragwort, Alexanders, Daisy, Sea Rocket, Field Forget-me-not, Lssr Hawkbit, Sea Spurge, Grn field-speedwell, D'lion, Smth Sow-Thistle, Groundsel, Red Deadnettle, Smth Hawk's-beard.

Lovely new visitor to the garden today. Thanks to the wonderful Adrienne Stratford I know that she's 3 years old & hatched in Conwy. Now enjoying Cranefly larvae in my #Anglesey garden 🤗 @AngBirdNews #chough

Purples & pinks from today's ramble across the sand dunes at Newborough Warren, Isle of Anglesey Devil's Bit Scabious, Maiden Pink, Harebell & Small (?) Restharrow #wildflowerhour @AngleseyFlora

Cofnod Conference 2020 (22/10/2020): Bookings and Programme now available. This will be an Online Event with an evening lecture session too. @SEWBReC @BISBrecon1 @wwbic1 @WBP_wildlife @North_Wales_WT @ALERC_NC cofnod.org.uk/Bookings

On Tuesday, in 42 mph winds, we finally, after 2 years of work, brought 5 plants of Allium ampeloprasum var. ampeloprasum (a #RedList species in Wales) into cultivation, as an insurance for Anglesey's plants of the species - in association with @NatResWales & @AngleseyFlora.

Sea spleenwort, Asplenium marinum, growing on the cliffs at South Stack, Anglesey in North Wales. Have your seen sea spleenwort in the wild? Do you have photos of this species? Please share them if you can 😊 #fernfriday #ferns #nature

@mandy_forde @joshual951 @nervousbotanist @BSBIbotany @BSBICymru Have you dropped Nigel a line?

@AngleseyFlora @joshual951 @nervousbotanist @BSBIbotany @BSBICymru Thanks Robbie, I did wonder about it's distribution as there are no 'confirmed' records on NBN Atlas for Anglesey

Rather excited, think I've found Subterranean Clover just yards from the house #wildflowerhour #wildflowerID @BSBIbotany @BSBICymru @AngleseyFlora

@mandy_forde @joshual951 @nervousbotanist @BSBIbotany @BSBICymru It's such a shame that the @BSBIbotany and NBN records don't necessarily match up. bsbi.org/maps?taxonid=2…. Nice find, it's not so easy to spot.

@mandy_forde @joshual951 @nervousbotanist @BSBIbotany @BSBICymru Perfect habitat for it too.

@joshual951 @nervousbotanist @BSBIbotany @BSBICymru @AngleseyFlora I take it my id is correct then? This is it in situ, it's sooooooo tiny.

@mandy_forde @BSBIbotany @BSBICymru Lovely, we have a strong population of this species in the west of Anglesey with new records being made annually. It's such a nice find.

@elinorchapman @medicalbangor @meddygolbangor @BangorUni He certainly would. Glad to see you are coming 'home'! Can we tempt you out for a bit of #Botany some time?

@AngleseyFlora @medicalbangor @meddygolbangor @BangorUni My Taid would be so proud (right?)

I'm delighted to announce that I was appointed as Lecturer in Medical Sciences at School of Medical Sciences @medicalbangor, @meddygolbangor, Bangor University @BangorUni earlier this month (15th April 2020).

A rare British orchid has been found @LivUni by Dr @RajWhitlock and undergrad Connie Webb after #DNAsequencing. The #orchid unique to Britain and usu.found in coastal dunes & woods has been identified as the #rare dune helleborine (Epipactis dunensis). ow.ly/eyb150ztSwv

@ukorchids @LeifBersweden @AngleseyFlora - this is seriously cool. And great to hear that they plan to have ‘meadows’ @LivUni