Kate Gold

I've not taken part in #Wildflowerhour for a few months, but I was in Brighton yesterday and saw lots of #pavementplants still in flower. So here's a Winter 10+ #thewinter10 #urbanbotany

Violet Helleborine in local woodland, Plumpton, East Sussex #wildflowerhour

Musk Mallow seen at Lewes Railway Land reserve #wildflowerhour

Large White on Bristly Oxtongue, Cockshut Stream wetland restoration project, Lewes #wildflowerhour #PollinatorPals

Bees on Spear Thistle, Cockshut Stream wetland restoration project, Lewes #wildflowerhour #PollinatorPals

Flies on Creeping Thistle, Cockshut Stream wetland restoration project, Lewes #wildflowerhour #PollinatorPals

Common Blue on Birds Foot Trefoil at the Cockshut Stream restoration project, Lewes #PollinatorPals #wildflowerhour

@Michell27802876 Thank you Michelle

@KateGold24 Lovely duo!😍

Nettle-leaved Bellflower and Harebell beside my favourite chalk track on the South Downs near Plumpton, East Sussex #WildflowerHour #BellflowerFamily

Final 3 - from the Deadnettle family: Marsh Woundwort, Black Horehound and Wild Basil. South Downs #WildflowerHour

Some very photogenic Hogweed on Seaford Head on Friday evening #WildflowerHour

A few more from this afternoon on the South Downs: Wild Clematis, Wild Mignonette and Dropwort #WildflowerHour

Two root hemiparasites - Yellow Rattle (with bonus Pyramidal Orchid and Red Bartsia. South Downs #WildflowerHour

I didn't realise, until I checked Francis Rose this evening, that Round Headed Rampion is in the #BellflowerFamily! Seen on the South Downs this afternoon #WildflowerHour

Small Scabious (pics 1 & 3) and Field Scabious (2 & 4). South Downs #WildflowerHour

Some varied members of the Daisy family: Greater Knapweed, Hemp Agrimony, Lesser Burdock and Mouse-ear Hawkweed. All on the South Downs #WildflowerHour

Nice to spot Dwarf Thistle for its flower rather than accidentally sitting or kneeling on its horribly prickly leaves! South Downs near Plumpton #WildflowerHour

Marsh Fragrant and Pyramidal Orchids in chalk grassland on the South Downs near Plumpton #WildflowerHour

Bird's Foot Trefoil, Tufted Vetch and Meadow Vetchling, all seen this afternoon on the South Downs near Plumpton, East Sussex #WildflowerHour

I know it's tricky to separate Common and Spiny Restharrow without seed pods and without looking closely at the young shoots, but these plants looked quite different, the first low and sprawling (O. repens?) and the second upright (O. spinosa) #WildflowerHour

Wild Teasel, Common Mallow and Yellow Horned Poppy on the shingle at Tidemills, East Sussex #WildflowerHour