Tom Ward

Botanist and North Worcestershire Flora Group Recorder 🌿🌳 Serial question asker, always trying to learn. Joint VCR for Worcestershire.

[Mick Crawley @crawley_mick]

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

[Tom Ward @tomwardplz]

'Red dead redemption' Lamium purpureum, Martley.

[Tom Ward @tomwardplz]

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

[Tom Ward @tomwardplz]

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

[Nigel Chaffey @NChaffey]

Saucy!
Stay safe.

[Tom Ward @tomwardplz]

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

[Dave Throup @DaveThroup]

Last day of filming for Worcestershire Nature Recovery Strategy

With @severnrivers @worcscc @NE_WestMids attempting to avoid the deluge

[Tom Ward @tomwardplz]

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

[Tom Ward @tomwardplz]

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

[Tom Ward @tomwardplz]

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

[Tom Ward @tomwardplz]

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

[Tom Ward @tomwardplz]

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

[Tom Ward @tomwardplz]

@MilesJoshua Yes plz

[Tom Ward @tomwardplz]

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

[Tom Ward @tomwardplz]

@MilesJoshua 😂

[Tom Ward @tomwardplz]

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

[Tom Ward @tomwardplz]

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

[Tom Ward @tomwardplz]

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

[Mick Crawley @crawley_mick]

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.

[Tom Ward @tomwardplz]

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

[Tom Ward @tomwardplz]

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

[Tom Ward @tomwardplz]

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