Seaford Last Meadow flowers in a dry August

Despite being a dry month there were still some species flowering

Rosebay Willowherb – Chamaenerion angustifolium

Wild Carrot – Daucus carota gall – Keifferia pericarpiicola

This was the first time I’d found these little pink balls on Wild Carrot, and I had to look up what they were.

Old mans beard – Clematis vitalba

Both the flowers and seed heads at once. Also known as Travellers Joy.

Common Fleabane – Pulicaria dysenterica

Tall Melilot – Melilotus altissimus

Perennial Sowthistle – Sonchus palustris

This yellow wildflower was very large and attractive and growing in the verge on my way home – it’s not one I’ve ID’d before.

Lady’s Bedstraw – Galium verum

On the grass bank just inside the cemetery entrance were three chalk grassland loving wildflowersAMP altogether: Stemless Thistle Cirsium acaule, Mouse-ear Hawkweed Pilosella officinarum (the small rosettes of leaves) and Lady’s Bedstraw Galium verum.

More posts about the Last Meadow

Pea flowers in the Last MeadowAMP

Last Meadow in SeptemberAMP

Last Meadow in JuneAMP