Kevin Walker

@bsbiscience.bsky.social

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Plant ecologist based in North Yorkshire. Formerly at UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology @ukceh.bsky.social and now Head of Science at the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland @bsbibotany.bsky.social. Coauthor of http://plantatlas2020.org

Spring Sandwort Sabulina Verna

Fritillaria meleagris naturalised at Aubert Ings SSSI near to Cattal

Purple Toothwort Lathraea clandestina by the Oak Beck Harrogate. A parasite of roots of trees, in this case Salix x fragilis

Aconite-leaved Buttercup Ranunculus aconitifolius along the Oak Beck

Jacob’s Ladder, Lathkill Dale

Red-necked Footman

Flowering Bay Willow Salix pentandra with male catkins

St Robert’s Churchyard in Pannal showing the difference between cutting (left) and not cutting (right) the grass in May

Polygala amarella

Dryas octopetala growing with Hippocrepis comosa

Wild Tulip Tulipa sylvestris

Purple saxifrage

Mezereum Daphne mezereum in flower, Ingleborough