MBB volunteer, Jim Pearson, has created a useful guide that helps explain the basic structure of a flower and key terminology.
Shoots to Roots
From Shoots to Roots: revealing the above and below ground structure of meadow plants
Jim Pearson: The Purple Fumitory
Purple Ramping-fumitory is a nationally scarce and endemic to the UK, the only place it grows naturally in the world. It is an annual plant which used to be widespread in the mixed farming and arable areas of Britain. However, during the last 50 years it has undergone a drastic decline throughout its former range...
Rob Duffy: Sidewalk Botany Report January-March 2018
The year kicked off with the New Year Survey of flowering plants of the Liverpool Loop Line, which didn’t yield much, but what was quite inspiring on a cold, wet, afternoon, to this relative fern novice, was the abundance of Soft Shield Fern shuttlecocks (Polystichum setiferum), in the Broad Green “dell”. I posted a...