BSBI Cymru / Wales
Managed by Alastair Hotchkiss, BSBI Wales Officer - Promoting the enjoyment, study and recording of wild plants in Wales / Hyrwyddo’r mywnhad, astudiaeth, a chofnodi planhigion gwyllt yng Nghymru. @bsbibotany.bsky.social
- Reposted by BSBI Cymru / WalesNew #GBRedList for vascular plants is published today by a team led by @bsbibotany.bsky.social with partners @naturalengland.bsky.social @ukceh.bsky.social @naturescot.bsky.social @natreswales.bsky.social @nhm-london.bsky.social @plantlifeintl.bsky.social @rbgkew.bsky.social @thebotanics.bsky.social
- Reposted by BSBI Cymru / WalesOur annual membership special offer opens today! Join us this month & you'll enjoy 15 months of membership benefits for the price of 12. Those benefits are so numerous & fabulous you'll have to head over here to see them all: bsbipublicity.blogspot.com/2025/10/bsbi... Then join us! bsbi.org/join-us
- Eurinllys tonnog (Hypericum undulatum) yn sir Benfro / Wavy St. John’s-wort in Pembrokeshire.
- Welsh Mudwort / Lleidlys Cymreig (Limosella australis) by the Afon Dysynni. The water boatman and small fish joined me in admiring this little plant.
- Very different looking seeds between Drosera anglica (gwlithlys mawr / great sundew) and D intermedia (gwlithlys hirddail / oblong-leaved sundew). In the hybrid between D anglica and D rotundifolia the seed pods don’t really open and the seeds are just soft pale brown bits. #sundews #drosera
- Reposted by BSBI Cymru / WalesHuge congratulations to our lovely colleague James @bsbicountries.bsky.social on the publication today of his book, Endemic. More info here: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/endemic-9... Check out the thread below to find out about some of the endemic plants in the book inc Catacol Whitebeam & York Groundsel.
- Fossil swamp-forest plants at Brymbo, Wrexham - where 300 million years ago giant lycopods (clubmosses) like Lepidodendron towered to over 120ft tall with massive horsetails like Calamites! Amazing to be able to see these at Stori Brymbo.
- Great few days at the BSBI Wales Annual Summer meeting in Denbighshire this week / cawsom dri diwrnod gwych yng nghyfarfod haf blynyddol BSBI Cymru yn sir Ddinbych.
- Galeopsis speciosa (large flowered hemp nettle / y benboeth amryliw) in Montgomeryshire today, with its leaf beetle Chrysolina fastuosa.
- Here’s a tranquil little video of a cool mountain stream on Cadair Idris with Intermediate Water-Starwort (Callitriche brutia subsp. hamulata), with spanner-like tips to its narrow leaves.
- Reposted by BSBI Cymru / WalesBotanists in Wales re-find missing plants. BSBI press release: markavery.info/2025/07/09/b... What is gone for good? What remains to be rediscovered? @bsbibotany.bsky.social @bsbicymru.bsky.social @bsbiscotland.bsky.social @bsbiireland.bsky.social @natreswales.bsky.social @plantlifeuk.bsky.social
- Reposted by BSBI Cymru / Wales@britishspiders.bsky.social recently digitised 15k slide 📸 from arachnologists John & Frances Murphy. Spotted that one of their Snowdon Lily 📸 was exactly same clump/angle 54yrs later. Great to see this Mountain Spiderwort clump still thriving. @bsbibotany.bsky.social @natreswales.bsky.social
- Two Welsh endemic trees on the limestone in Breconshire - Welsh whitebeam (Sobus cambrensis) and lesser whitebeam (Sorbus minima) - particularly smitten with minima. #Sorbus #whitebeams
- True service tree / Cerddinen Morgannwg - the service tree of Glamorgan (Sorbus domestica) on the breezy cliff top above the Bristol Channel / Môr Hafren. #sorbusdomestica #highupplants
- Super to find #HighUpPlants of Salix herbacea (Dwarf Willow) on Friday - a first record for 50 years on this hill, and hectad #NatureNetworks #RhwydweithiauNatur #wildflowerhour
- Went to search for a little white flower on the Llŷn today - Didn’t find it, but saw other white-flowered beauties! Incl. Pale dog-violet (Viola lactea), white ramping fumitory (Fumaria capreolata), and field mouse-ear (Cerastium arvense). #NatureNetworks #RhwydweithiauNatur
- Hutchinsia / beryn y graig (Hornungia petraea) in the dunes at Whiteford Burrows NNR, Gower v.c.41. #cabbagefamily #wildflowerhour
- For #wildflowerhour this week, they’re not #treeflowers but flowers that are nonetheless reliant on a tree! Toothwort / Deintlys (Lathraea squamaria), parasitic on the roots of the amazing old native black poplar in the car park by the River Severn in Newtown, Powys.
- Two cracking crucifers from different ends of Wales this week - Yellow whitlowgrass / Llysiau‘r-bystwn melyn (Draba aizoides) going to seed on Gower yesterday, and Alpine pennycress / Codywasg y mwynfeydd (Noccaea caerulescens) flowering in Gwydir Forest earlier in the week.
- Stunning #woodlandplants from the limestone woods in Denbighshire - yellow star-of-Bethlehem (Gagea lutea), wild daffodil (Narcissus pseudonarcissus) and early dog-violet (Viola reichenbachiana) #wildflowerhour
- Two black-blotchy-leaved #woodlandplants together, Arum maculatum (lords-and-ladies etc) & Orchis mascula (early-purple orchids). #wildflowerhour
- Reposted by BSBI Cymru / WalesCardamine pratensis: there are others out elsewhere, but the first at home. A many named plant. What do you call it? Sir Benfro Pembrokeshire Cymru #widflowers #springflowers @bsbibotany.bsky.social @plantlifeuk.bsky.social @bsbicymru.bsky.social @bsbiengland.bsky.social @bsbiscotland.bsky.social
- #WoodAnemone this week - its Welsh name is Blodyn y Gwynt (the flower of the wind), but another old local name is Bara Caws (cheese bread!) #wildflowerhour
- Yn galw ar fotanegwyr sy'n siarad cymraeg! Mae dau gyhoeddiad BSBI bellach ar gael yn y Gymraeg. Diolch i Raglen #RhwydweithiauNatur Llywodraeth Cymru, a ddarperir gan y Gronfa Dreftadaeth. Felly rydych chi eisiau adnabod eich planhigion Cod Ymddygiad BSBI Lawrlwythwch nhw yma bsbi.org/cymru
- Calling Welsh-speaking botanists! Two BSBI publications are now available in Welsh, thanks to funding from the #NatureNetworks Programme, delivered by the Heritage Fund, on behalf of the Welsh Government: So You Want to Know Your Plants BSBI Code of Conduct Download them here bsbi.org/cymru
- Blue anemone #GardenEscapes on the verge just outside the village. Not 100% sure yet if Anemone blanda or A apennina (opinions welcome!) - leaves are sparsely hairy underneath so leaning towards A apennina. #wildflowerhour
- Tormaen porffor (Saxifraga oppositifolia) yng Nghwm Idwal heddiw. Hyfryd! / beautiful Purple saxifrage in Cwm Idwal today. #Eryri #Saxifraga
- Reposted by BSBI Cymru / WalesRanunculus ficaria ~ Llygad Ebrill ~ lesser celandine/cheesecups, also eithin ~ gorse (the scent drifting in warmth) & briallu # primrose, Teifi Marshes #YellowFlowers #wildflowerhour #cymru #wales @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @wtsww.bsky.social @bsbicymru.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social
- Reposted by BSBI Cymru / WalesBeyond chuffed to finally meet the gorgeous Yellow Whitlowgrass (Draba aizoides) on the Gower today 😍 These castle ruins and the nearby cliffs are the only known sites in Britain for this stunner.
- I love Powys in the springtime. Celandine, coltsfoot, opposite-leaved golden saxifrage, primrose #yellowflowers / Dwi'n caru Powys yn y gwanwyn. Llygad Ebrill, Carn yr ebol, Eglyn cyferbynddail, Briallu #blodaumelyn #wildflowerhour
- Lluglys gludiog (Silene viscaria) yn haul y gwanwyn heddiw /Sticky catchfly (Silene viscaria) flowering in the early spring sun today.
- Rustyback fern / Duegredynen gefngoch (Asplenium ceterach) on limestone outcrops cleared of dense thorn, ash regen etc. by NRW & Llanymynech golf club. Nice to see, as no records here for 30+ years - would’ve been quite painful/scratchy to get to them in recent years!
- Reposted by BSBI Cymru / Walesspring & winter ~ gwanwyn a gaeaf dant y ci ~ dazzle flower (dant y llew ~ dandelion) Sir Benfro Pembrokeshire #tywydd #weather #wildflowers #loveukweather @plantlifeuk.bsky.social @bsbicymru.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social
- Reposted by BSBI Cymru / WalesWell, what a delight! Early Sand-grass Mibora minima in fine fettle on the dunes at Aberffraw, Ynys Môn today. Last saw this on the beach at Juno Beach, Normandy. Maxing out at c.1cm tall, it's almost invisible. @bsbibotany.bsky.social @bsbicymru.bsky.social
- Reposted by BSBI Cymru / WalesWe're hiring! Could you help create a resilient future for the Botanical Society, working across our teams to support staff and volunteers? Apply to become our first ever Administration Officer: bsbi.org/vacancies/ad... Not applying yourself? Then please help us spread the word! Deadline: 2nd March
- Reposted by BSBI Cymru / WalesLamium purpureum ~ marddanhadlen goch ~ red dead nettle #SirBenfro #Pembrokeshire counted in #NewYearPlantHunt the other day. Last night -6.3°C on grass tips -1.5°c in screen a couple of metres from the little beauty #frost #wildplants #wildflowers @bsbicymru.bsky.social @plantlifeuk.bsky.social
- Not a list of blooming plants, but a bloomin’ good fern for my #NewYearPlantHunt - a quick car-journey stop in Monmouthshire to see some lobed maidenhair spleenwort (Asplenium trichomanes subsp. pachyrachis / A csikii).
- This little Christmas cracker was found by the BSBI Meirionnydd Naturalists’ Group during their Christmas walk on Harlech dunes last Friday - Variegated Horsetail / Marchrawn Amrywiol (Equisetum variegatum)
- Winter botany in Eryri, with marsh #clubmoss #Lycopodiella inundata at one of its few sites in Wales / Botaneg gaeaf yn #Eryri, #Cnwpfwsogl y gors (Lycopodiella inundata). Mae hyn yn tyfu mewn ychydig o leoedd yng Nghymru.
- Lliwiau’r enfys ar ddeilen mieri / Colours of the rainbow on a bramble leaf. 🌈🍃
