Grasslands June 26

Meadow cranesbill Geranium pratense

Angelica - purple nodes on leave/stem connection

Sea club rush

Gypsywort

Tutsan

Osier willow - narrow leaves

Hedge bestraw - only gallium with four leaves in whorl

Perforate St John’s wort - hypericum

Prickly sow thistle - glabourous shiny leaves - more prickly than smooth

Wayfairing tree with fruits

Hedge parsley

Rough chervill - swollen nodes, blotchy stem

Buckthorn - fruits go black

Hemp agrimony

False fox sedge

Sticky mouse ear

Heath grass - hairy ligule and leaves sheath

Water figwort Scrophularia auriculata

White willow on left, white underside and hairy. Crack willow on right, glabourous and much bigger leaves

Dyers green wood - pea family

Nipple wort

Tufted vetch Vicia cracca

Great Burnett on left salad burnett on right

Spiked sedge carex spicata

Saw wort

Knotgrass

Poa annua annual meadow grass

Tormentil

Marsh foxtail - more glaucous and grows sideways than meadow

Autumn hawkbit - non branches hairs (simple) numerous flowers / branches stems, no scales on receptacles (dissimilar to cats ear which has scales also more lobed leaves than cats ear).

Great willowherb - decurent leaves base on stem

Bottom - field horsetail and top marsh horsetail (palustry), With black teeth

Bugle with flowers gone

Pepper saxifrage yellow umbellifer

Tufted vetch not in flower

Great burnett flowers

Glacous sedge - flacca on the backa, 2 male heads. Utricle is a fruit.

Hoary plantain plantago media

Common milkwort

Betony - grows on leached limestone, chalk heath. How to tell nettle from betony, from louseworts - four nutlets

Fairy flax tiny white flowers chalk grasslands

Meadow vetching - yellow flowers and stipules looks like leaves

Rough hawkbit - forked Y shaped hairs on leaves, sometimes on stem. Single stem flowers, catsear has multiple flowers from basal leaves

Tor grass - brachypodium pinnatum

False brome - brachypodium sylvavtica, hairy More wooded / shaded areas

Sweet vernal Anthoxanthum odoratum

Brown bent

Tufted hair grass

Meadow fescue - no hairy auricles, tiny almost no awns, smaller than tall but similar flowers

Tufted hair grass

Glyceria fruitans, floating sweetgrass? Very common everywhere. Leaf sheath completely sealed. Glyceria declanata small sweet grass is similar, smaller leaves but common is nutrient poor

Tall fescue shedonorous arundinacea tall fescue - hairy auricles Festuca arundinacea

Tall fescue Festuca arundinacea

Left - soft brome flowers on stem, right meadow brome - more pendunculus and indicator old grassland. Meadow brome more uncommon

Up right brome - camel eyelashes on leaf / hail hitler

Downy oat grass - long awns and big heads avenula pubesens (also similar to meadow oat grass pratensis)

Marsh horse tail