And so the #GrasslandsTrail was 'locally launched' as part of the Burrenbeo Trust #BurrenInBloom festival this Monday, w a large group for a walk & talk at #SlieveCarran , in Burren National Park

Great folk, Qs, plants & scenery!

All-Ireland Pollinator Plan Phoebe O'Brien National Parks and Wildlife Service Notice Nature Ireland

Ajuga reptans and Ajuga pyramidalis seen while out and about recently with Cian Ó Ceallaigh.

Early Purple Orchids (Orchis mascula) growing on an old wall near the coast at Fermoyle, Dingle Peninsula, Co. Kerry. Unusual to see orchids as walls flora! BSBI Ireland BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland

Lovely to see them still hanging on!

Signs are good as I arrive into the #Burren to lead walk on #GreatIrishGrasslands for #Burren InBloom today ... look at these beauties 😍

Annual pilgrimage to the bluebell woods complete. This population occupies a cold little hollow and operates spring a bit behind everyone else wildflowerhour BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland

Pinguicula grandiflora (Large Flowered Butterwort), Pedicularis sylvatica (Common Lousewort), Salix repens (Creeping Willow), and Hyacinthoides non-scripta (Common Bluebell) for #WildflowerHour . Not a #HedgerowChallenge , but still lovely species!

Few from Ollscoil na Gaillimhe | University of Galway today. Oxalis corniculata (Procumbent Yellow Sorrel), Valerianella spp (Cornsalad app), Geranium lucidum (Shining cranesbill) and Tanacetum parthenium (Feverfew) not yet in flower. BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland #WildowerHour

Any reliable hints and tips on the identification of Crepis spp rosettes? Or do I simply have to wait for it to flower and fruit for best results (until I can see if the achenes have a beak etc), provided it doesn't get weeded out! From leaf description, C. vesicaria. BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland

Some for wildflowerhour. Barbarea vulgaris (Winter Cress), Malus domestica (Apple) X2 pics, and Medicago lupulina (Black Medick). Lots and lots in flower as the weeks go by! BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland #WildflowerHour

Hyacinthoides x massartiana, the hybrid Bluebell, beside its parent, the non-native Hyacinthoides hispanica (Spanish Bluebell) at an overgrown flower bed today. Intermediate in character, e.g. the hanging nature of H. non-scripta. BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland

Some Sedges seen about recently. Carex caryophyllea, Carex peninsula, Carex binervis, Carex paniculata

Two of our early flowering grasses - sweet vernal grass & meadow foxtail. The former in a semi-improved grassland with common sorrel, pignut, cuckoo flower etc - a good target site for lowland meadow restoration #grassland #habitatrestoration

No Cowslips for the #CowslipChallenge this week, but a few nice plants. Pseudofumaria alba (Pale Corydalis) in Dublin. Lamium album (White Deadnettle), Orchis mascula (Early Purple Orchid), and Viola riviniana (Common Dog Violet) from Galway. wildflowerhour

#BSBISpringConference . Next up, a talk by Phoebe O'Brien, discussing the different invasive plant species that occur in Ireland. Lots of lovely talks today! BSBI Ireland BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland

BSBI Ireland #BSBISpringConference Donncha Ó Catháin telling us about rare ferns in West Clare

#BSBISpringConference kicking off with the first talk. Clare Heardman talking about rare and interesting plants of West Cork. Looking forward to the day! BSBI Ireland BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland

Bookings for #BSBISpringConference close tonight...so be quick and visit bsbi.org/irish-conferen… if you'd like to come along and find out what's new in Irish botany! Its all free too. BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland NBG Ireland National Parks and Wildlife Service Oonagh Duggan Micheline Sheehy Skeffington Olly Lynch Milner Phoebe O'Brien