Keith Dodd writes:

These images are from a small glade, by the main path, which
was cut for us by BTCV 2 years ago. Ian Young's group I think.

Previously it was very dense hawthorn and the ground beneath
was bare.

It is now a mass of wild flowers, including thistles, ox eye daisies,
and two types of melliot. One of these, the common melilot, has
small yellow flowers, and the other has white flowers and forms a
small bush, the white melliot. Both are common on rough ground
in SE England, but less so elsewhere. They are Leguminosae.

There are lots of other plants in this glade now, including a
small Blackthorn bush, and a wild rose.

Thanks to BTCV.



                                                                          


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