Arable weeds

Looking across this field of ripening oil seed rape, I was reminded that arable weeds - the plants found in cultivated ground - are some of our most threatened wild flowers.

On the edges of the field, where these OSR flowers were still blooming, I found a few of them.

The Scarlet Pimpernel is also called Poor Man's Weatherglass because it closes and opens as the sun goes in and out.

A familiar garden visitor is Groundsel, with yellow shaving-brush flowers and seedheads like miniature dandelion clocks.

And the ever popular poppy.  These two were genuine wild ones, not sown for effect.