Creeping buttercup also is spread through the transportation of hay.

Among its foods is the nectar of the white clover and the creeping buttercup.

These include creeping buttercup and ground ivy.

Creeping buttercup has three-lobed dark green, white-spotted leaves that grow out of the node.

So any docks, dandelions and creeping buttercup go straight to the tip and good riddance to them too.

But such plants can just as quickly become pests, as anyone who has attempted to rescue a flower bed from creeping buttercup can attest.

In May and June there are many wild flowers, including green alkanet, herb Robert and creeping buttercup.

Creeping Buttercup (Ranunculus repens)

The bulbous buttercup (Ranunculus bulbosus)prefers the tops, while the creeping buttercup (R. repens)favours the hollows.

Ranunculus repens (Creeping Buttercup) is a flowering plant in the buttercup family, native to Europe, Asia and northwestern Africa.

Creeping Buttercup was sold in many parts of the world as an ornamental plant, and has now become an invasive species in many parts of the world.

Other species recorded in the meadow are Lesser Celandine, Common Sorrel, Cuckooflower and Creeping Buttercup.

Ground flora includes meadow sweet, yellow pimpernell, lady fern, rough stalked meadow grass, creeping soft grass, creeping buttercup and/or golden saxifage.

Waterlogged or poorly drained land is indicated by the presence of species such as mosses, creeping buttercup and horsetail, or bog loving plants including sedges, rushes, marsh marigold, marsh orchid or flag iris.

I think of weeds by their growth habits, splitting them into two groups: pernicious perennials (such as docks, Japanese knotweed, creeping buttercups, marestail, bindweed and bramble), and annuals and ephemerals (fat hen, cleavers, chickweed and hairy bittercress).

Around 320 different types of wildflowers grow in these areas, such as Creeping Buttercup and Herb Robert, and are allowed to go through an entire yearly cycle of growth (including seed spreading), before the grasses are cut at the end of August.

Sections of Callow at higher elevation and therefore less prone to flooding have a greater diversity of plants, in particular Clover, Creeping Buttercup, Cuckoo Flower, Marsh Bedstraw, Marsh Marigold, Meadow Grass, Meadowsweet, Sedge and Water Mint.

Perennial weeds with bulbils, such as lesser celandine and oxalis, or with persistent underground stems such as couch grass (Agropyron repens) or creeping buttercup (Ranunculus repens) are able to store reserves of food, and are thus able to grow faster and with more vigour than their annual counterparts.