
Find a flower with 4 free petals arranged in a cross shape & you’ve found a member of the Brassicaceae! It’s a huge family & the challenge this week for #Wildflowerhour is to find a wild or naturalised member of the #CabbageFamily in flower. Share your finds this Sunday 8-9pm!
On the very windy Purbeck hilltop above the wood, a number of Early Purple-orchids struggling to grow vertically.
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In a wet field approaching that wood, Lady's Smocks.
It's that time of spring when suddenly so many wildflowers are taking off all at once. From an ancient wood in Purbeck, Wild Garlic, Wood Anemone, Greater Stitchwort, and Toothwort, a hemi-parasite on Hazel.