Meadow plants for ID please!

[wildlifepilgrim]

So here is the deal, at a local school they have a meadow that they are thinking of getting rid of. To help ensure that they don’t we have been trying to identify the diversity of life found there. So far we have identified 43 species but need a little help with some of these.

1) Like a white tufted vetch

2) Small flower ~4mm. Many of them growing in a clump

Any help would be great, thanks!

[IanS]

white melilot and probably common storksbill but need to see a bit more of the plant to be certain...

[wildlifepilgrim]

Not sure about the storksbill. This looked a bit different to the Gallery pictures. It had lots of flowers and they were quite small - like scarlet pimpernel sized.

[KeenTeen17]

Originally Posted by IanS

white melilot and probably common storksbill but need to see a bit more of the plant to be certain...

Originally Posted by wildlifepilgrim

Not sure about the storksbill. This looked a bit different to the Gallery pictures. It had lots of flowers and they were quite small - like scarlet pimpernel sized.

White Melilot is definitely correct. I think it does look like Storksbill but if it was small like you said then it could be Small Flowered or Round Leaved Cranesbill

[leifus]

definately a stork's-bill...i was going to say common, but if the flowers were scarlet pimpernel sized and the anthers are yellow, not red, then I'm gonna say musk stork's-bill....what was the soil like? Sandy?