recently identified

According to Stace the easiest way of identifying chickweeds is to count stamens. I photographed the flowers of a couple of plants on the allotment site this morning; they had 5 stamens, which makes them common chickweed (Stellaria media). A chickweed photographed some weeks back had a flower with three stamens, which is probably also common chickweed, but that number also occurs rarely in lesser chickweed (Stellaria pallida).

A bindweed has come into flower, and allowed me to identify as large bindweed (Calystegia silvatica). I expect to find the other two species of Calystegia as they come into flower.

Stace distinguishes slender and yellow trefoils from lesser and hop trefoils by the terminal leaflet of the latter have a distinctly larger stalk than their lateral leaflets. Applying this criterion allows me to identify the two common species locally as lesser trefoil (Trifolium dubium) and hop trefoil (Trifolium campestre).