Fen Bedstraw

Flower: Loose clusters of white flowers. Each flower is up to 3mm across. Yellow anthers. Fruit: The fruits are low-domed warts. Leaves: Whorls of leaves in groups of 6 to 10. Leaves are one-veined. The linear leaves have prickly edges. Similar to Marsh Bedstraw (Galium palustre) but Fen Bedstraw often has rougher, purplish leaves. Fen Bedstraw is also a shorter plant.

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Common Bent

Flower: Each plant has hundreds of tiny spikelets with only one flower per spikelet. Fruit: Seed heads are in open, loose clusters. Leaves: Very short grass despite often being called the tallest of the Bent species. Very flat, thin and ribbed leaves which taper to a point. Hairless.

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Creeping Buttercup

Flower: 5 glossy yellow petals on furrowed stalks, up to 3cm wide and with spreading sepals. Fruit: A cluster of achenes, no larger than half a centimetre across. Leaves: Dark green and triangular-shaped with 3 deeply cut lobes, the end lobe being long-stalked.

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Hairy Buttercup

Flower: Shiny, pale yellow flowers, paler than the very similar Bulbous Buttercup (Ranunculus bulbosus). Just like Bulbous Buttercup, the green sepals of Hairy Buttercup are bent backwards and press against the flower stalk. Fruit: A short-beaked nutlet. The beak curves upwards. Leaves: An annual flower with palmate leaves. Similar to Bulbous Buttercup but hairier. Both the stems and leaves are very hairy. Bulbous Buttercup has a bulbous stem base at ground level. Hairy Buttercup does not have. The leaves are paler than those of Bulbous Buttercup. Alternate leaves.

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Common Cat's-ear

Flower: Yellow dandelion-like solitary flowers, up to 4cm. Underside has green-greyish florets. Leafless, unbranched flower stalk contains scale-like bracts at the top. Flowers similar-looking to Autum Hawkbit except they are slightly larger and Autumn Hawkbit does not have the scale-like bracts at the top ...

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Lesser Celandine

Flower: 7-12 glossy yellow petals up to 3cm wide, sometimes fading to white. Flowers only opening in sunshine. Fruit: Pale and globular. Leaves: The leaves are dark green, heart-shaped and long stalked. The leaves often contain light patches on them.

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Roman Chamomile

Flower: The flowers resemble large white daisies. Flowers measure between 1.8 and 2.5cm across. White-edged, green bracts. Pollinated by flies, bees and beetles. Fruit: An oblong, seed-like fruit. The seeds ripen from June to October. Leaves: A hairy, mat-forming perennial plant with finely divided leaves and thread-like leaflets.

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Sicilian Chamomile

Flower: Large, white, daisy-like, long lasting flowers, each measuring up to 6cm across. Yellow centred. Fruit: A strongly ribbed achene (type of dry, one-seeded fruit). Leaves: A mat-forming, bushy perennial evergreen plant with silvery green foliage. The leaves are finely divided. Usually occurs on calcareous soils.

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Lesser Chickweed

Flower: Deeply notched, white petals. The petals are usually absent but when not, they are minute. Flowers measure 3 to 6mm across. Sepals are hairless, unlike the downy sepals of the similar looking Common Chickweed (Stellaria media). 1 or 2 stamens. Common Chickweed has 3 to 5 stamens. Fruit: Green, oval fruits on long stalks. Unlike Common Chickweed the fruit stalks are not drooping. Pale yellowish-brown seeds. Leaves: Small, pale, yellowish-green leaves. The oval to oblong, pointed leaves are short-stalked and in opposite pairs up the stems. Untoothed. A prostrate annual.

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Creeping Cinquefoil

Flower: Yellow, 5 petals, buttercup-like with a notch at the end of each petal. Fruit: A head of dry greyish-brown tiny nutlets, or achenes. Leaves: Long-stalked, alternate, compound leaves, with stipules. 3 to 5 toothed leaflets. The leaves look very similar in appearance to those of Strawberry and Creeping Cinquefoil is often misidentified as Strawberry.

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Red Clover

Flower: Pinkish-purple egg-shaped flowers with very short stalks. Sometimes unstalked. Up to 3cm wide. Fruit: Egg-shaped pod, not hairy. Leaves: Each leaf has 3 finely toothed leaflets, the lower ones being stalked and upper unstalked. Leaflets often have a white crescent in their centres. Leaflets are variable in shape from round to linear and pointed.

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White Clover

Flower: Dull white becoming brown with age, egg-shaped, up to 2cm wide. Fruit: A linear pea-like pod which contains 3 or 4 heart-shaped yellow-brown seeds. Leaves: The leaves are trifoliate which means that they are divided into 3. The leaves are long-stalked and individual leaflets are circular with fine teeth along the margins. The leaves often have pale green or white v-shaped patterns on them. Occasionally (1 in 5,000 specimens) you may find a 4-leaf clove...

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Alsike Clover

Flower: The lower white petals turn rosy pink with age, and then brown after pollination. Fruit: A pea-like seedpod. Leaves: Smooth and trefoil leaves with finely serrated margins. The leaves are similar to White Clover leaves but without any markings. The (often hollow) stems are tall and erect, unlike those of White Clover. White Clover is a more sprawling plant. Its stipules have slender tips.

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Strawberry Clover

Flower: Flowerheads are densely packed with pink or light red, stalkless pea-shaped flowers. The flowers turn darker throughout the growing season. Fruit: The fruit of Strawberry clover is a distinctive and small dry indehiscent achene, resembling a tiny strawberry. The achene is typically red or pink, contributing to the plant's common name. It contains seeds and is borne in clusters, adding a decorative element to the overall appearance of the plant... Leaves: A perennial herb with compound serrated leaves. 3 leaflets. Similar to White Clover but smaller and with thicker bent back veins. The leaves are long-stalked and leaf tips are notched.

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Birdsfoot Clover

Flower: Short-stalked pale pink or white flowers in clusters of 1 to 4. Individual flowers are 6 to 8mm across. Fruit: The fruit are pea-like pods. Leaves: A prostrate hairy annual flower that has trefoil leaves. Birdsfoot Clover is similar to Burrowing Clover (Trifolium subterraneum) but is not hairy.

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