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Filnore Friends volunteers are currently scything the top meadow at Filnore Woods. By cutting and removing the vigorous grasses we are reducing the fertility which will give the less vigorous wild flowers a chance.
Yesterday (Tuesday) a dozen or so meadow flowers were in bloom. Here are three yellow ones.
Hop Trefoil has globular flower heads and the brown seed pods are a bit like hops. Black medick (see my post on 20th June) has black seed pods. You can also tell hop trefoil from black medick, which has smaller flowers, by looking at the trifoliate leaves: black medick has a minute point at the tip of each leaflet while Hop Trefoil's leaves are usually indented at the end of each leaflet.
Next yellow flower is the Yellow Vetchling, a bright yellow pea flower.
Agrimony or Aaron's Rod flowers in tall spikes with the five-petalled flowers opening in succession up the stem.
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