A new cereal is emerging

Martin is the BSBI Recorder for East Perthshire Tuesday 28 October 2025 in conjunction with Dundee Naturalists Society The Science Centre, Greenmarket, Dundee (Near the…

The British Pteridological Society (BPS) have kindly invited BSS to join them at their Autumn National Meeting on Saturday 25th October which will take place at RBGE.…

Now is the time to gather nuts

A quirky and ancient fern

A plant with a magical past

Spencer C.H. Barrett, Emeritus University Professor and former Canada Research Chair in Evolutionary Genetics in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University…

A widespread plant of roadsides and pavements, used to make pre-historic porridge.

David M Wilkinson, Honorary Professor in Ecology at the University of Lincoln, Honorary Research Fellow in Archaeology at the University of Nottingham Thursday 18 September…

An interesting introduction, but did Linnaeus use the wrong name for it?

A native climber, beloved by poets. It’s ‘right-handed’.

image by Nikolaos Maragkos

Isn’t it strange that poisonous plants are nearly always strikingly beautiful?

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Congratulations to the Aberdeen students who won this year's contest In a close-fought final round of the Botanical University Challenge held in Cambridge in August,…

A rare coastal species and perhaps a future food plant

A favourite of bees and butterflies

Plant Pub September

Few plants excite poets - this is one.

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