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Thousands of citizen scientists find hundreds of wild flowers blooming in midwinter (bsbi.org)

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Thousands of citizen scientists took part in the Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland’s fourteenth New Year Plant Hunt2 to find wild or naturalised plants flowering in midwinter. Their observations are providing us with robust evidence of how our wild plants are responding to a rapidly changing climate, and the implications this may have for all our wildlife.

Here’s a summary of what the plant hunters found:

647 different plant species in bloom, the third highest total in the history of the Hunt.
25,000 individual plant records – a record number.
The three most frequently recorded species were Daisy, Dandelion and Groundsel.
Almost half (48%) of the species in bloom were flowering later than expected vs around a quarter flowering earlier than expected.
Just over half (52%) of the species in bloom were native to Britain and Ireland.

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