Tom Ward

The following tweets explain how to tell the two species apart.

'Red dead redemption' Lamium purpureum, Martley.

@MilesJoshua Don't thank me, thank your own photogenic ass🙏❤️

Probably one of the best photos taken of me in a real long time. Thanks @tomwardplz

Haha ffs! VC37 is slightly easier to say than wust-ugh-shur

Great to meet you today @DaveThroup, thanks for braving the weather! ☔

Greater Cuckooflower (Cardmine raphanifolia), found naturalised around a lake in Clanna Woods, Gloucestershire 25.05.24 #gloucestershire #botany #brassicaceae #wildflowerhour

Smooth Cat's-ear (Hypochaeris glabra) in the disturbed patches of acid grassland and Marsh Cinquefoil (Comarum palustre) in the Rush Pool. Hartlebury Common, 16.05.24. #Wildflowerhour #Worcestershire

Wood-sedge (Carex sylvatica) and Thin-spiked Wood-sedge (Carex strigosa) growing together at Shrawley Woods. Wood-sedge utricles gradually tapering to a long beak. Thin-spiked Wood-sedge stubby utricles with a short beak. 🧐 🌾 #carex #botany #worcestershire @BSBIBotany

@gerrymiah31 Yes! T. ornithopodioides and P. verna were up there in flower last week!

A little late for #Wildflowerhour but here's Upright Chickweed (Moenchia erecta) from Swinyard Hill, Malvern. First time seeing this little beauty! 07.05.24 #Caryophyllaceae

@MilesJoshua Yes plz

The pride I feel when I make a banging cup of coffee knows no bounds!

Went to check up on an old record of Subterranean Clover (Trifolium subterraneum) and after a bit of roadside loitering I managed to spot it, think I am in love... Cutnall Green, 07.05.24 #botany #VC37 #trifolium

@MilesJoshua 😂

Amazing to see a Pine Marten crossing a fallen tree in the Forest of Dean yesterday in broad daylight. It made the most of a quiet moment between bikers. @ForestryEngland #ForestofDean

Green-winged Orchids (Anacamptis morio) and Adder's-tongue fern (Ophioglossum vulgatum) aplenty at the beautiful old meadows of Foster's Green / Eades NNR. #Worcestershire. 29.04.24. @BSBIbotany @WorcsWT

@MilesJoshua You got this. Rehearse, visualise, boss it.

Panicking about this opportunity! I’m so in my head.

Telling Aphanes arvensis (left) from A. australis (right) is all about the teeth at the tip of the calyx (x20). If the teeth are spreading, so the flower looks star-shaped from above, you have arvensis. If the teeth are upright (so the flower is barrel-shaped) that's australis.

Caught in action 🧐🌿 Great weekend and good to meet you Sam!

Pond Water-crowfoot (Ranunculus peltatus), Small-flowered Buttercup (Ranunculus parviflorus) and Early Forget-me-not (Myosotis ramosissima) and Blinks (Montia fontana) from the @BSBIbotany recorders meeting this weekend. Loton, Shropshire. 21.04.24. #Wildflowerhour #VC40

@BWMnetwork @Enigmabikes @The_BikeProject @WeAreCyclingUK @BeaconRCC @pushbikesbcc @AudaxUK @BVTNews I recognise that border! Hope you're doing well David.