Devon Botany

The Devonshire Association's Botany Section - studying and enjoying the county's wild plants, lichens and fungi.

[Devon Botany @DABotany]

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

[Liz Louise @Liz_Downey_]

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

[Liz Louise @Liz_Downey_]

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

[Liz Louise @Liz_Downey_]

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

[Liz Louise @Liz_Downey_]

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

[Rebecca Nesbit @RebeccaNesbit]

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:
https://t.co/8DyvNTVcIn
#EarthDay

[The Art and Energy Collective @OurArtAndEnergy]

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:
https://t.co/Azlr70zD2g

[Devon Botany @DABotany]

@Trichocolea Beautiful!

[Dawlish Warren @WarrenBirding]

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

[Sue Dancey @SueTownsend3]

Dartmoor's Blanket Bogs https://t.co/UcrbDuIBnE via @MilesKing10
A fab price of evidence based explanation. Please share. @DABotany
@dartmoornpa @AndyNisbet1

[Devon Botany @DABotany]

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

[Devon Botany @DABotany]

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

[Dawlish Warren @WarrenBirding]

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

[Plantlife @Love_plants]

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 ���️ https://t.co/Wvz1z1pcwi

[April Windle @aprilwindle]

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!

[April Windle @aprilwindle]

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!

[Dawlish Warren @WarrenBirding]

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

[Steph Murphy @StephMurphy66]

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

[Sarah Jennings @Sarahjengs]

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

[Sarah Jennings @Sarahjengs]

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