The hepatic mat webinar can now be seen on the Swedish Bryology YouTube channel. Also some nice little taxonomic videos including one on Andreaea rothii/rupestris - delightfully called the 'sooty mosses' in Sweden. ? something for the BBS to consider 🤔 youtube.com/@mossornasvann…

Abundant lesser tussock-sedge (Carex diandra) in some lovely rich fen on a client's farm. Alongside the bottle sedge, marsh cinquefoil, bogbean, plentiful tall forbs & numerous brown mosses (including Calliergon giganteum), this is NVC M9b.

Great to find this shady horsetail (Equisetum pratense) at work the other day, a new site for the species. First VC106 record since 2007 & only 4 other records from the vice county.

Pretty sure this is grey tooth (Phellodon melaleucus) from Abernethy Forest yesterday, a new tooth fungus for me. #fungi

Client's site this week has been pretty fantastic for getting good VC107 records: common twayblade, chaffweed, allseed, bird's-nest orchid, bristle club-rush, northern bedstraw, field gentian & plenty else in the heaths, mires, grasslands & woodlands.

#MarineMiles day 100!! 🥳 A big milestone to reach 100 days of walking from Lands End to John O' Groats for Hebridean Whale & Dolphin Trust! We have been joined by friends Dan and Ollie who have been great moral boosters and Gus Routledge! Please keep donating! 👇 gofund.me/ac84244b

Some nice botany during & after joining Indy Kiemel Greene, Katie Monk, Dan & Olly for their #MarineMiles: pale butterwort, tea-leaved willow, autumn gentian, one-flowered wintergreen & creeping lady's-tresses. Golden eagle on the drive home too plus a mouthy osprey.

Waheyyy! Found my main target for this site on the last day of survey: c40 plants of pyramidal bugle on a wildfire site. Also shepherd's-cress, nice species-rich bearberry heath, false brome abundant in young regenerating woodland, globeflower, heath pearlwort... Nice!

Having seen both Donna Rainey & Kevin Walker's devil's-bit scabious (Succisa pratensis) meadow pics, here's my contribution, from the horse-grazed fields out the back of the house. Staggering display!

One of my offices this past week. Pretty cool.

Saw the other day that someone’s gone along a significant stretch of the A82 through Glen Coe pulling up all the roadside ragwort. To what end? In what’s really a pretty depauperate landscape already, remove the only thing really providing much late summer nectar 🤷🏼‍♂️

Saw there hadn't been a bog orchid (Hammarbya paludosa) record in Glen Coe (or its offshoots) since 1955 which I felt was a glaring omission from its flora, so was keeping an eye out & was happy to spot 5 plants right by the path on one outing last week.

More ridge-walking at work today.

Another nice record was this goldilocks buttercup (Ranunculus auricomus), first record for Glen Coe since 1995. Loads of lovely parsley fern (Cryptogramma crispa) & grass-of-Parnassus (Parnassia palustris) nearby too.