Low-growing wild flowers that have colonised a garden lawn (1)

I came across this by chance, in France. A lawn had not been cut for several weeks and Lawn Daises and Bugle are in full flower. The next day the owner mowed it, to restore the neat green sward. Note that these are not hay meadow flowers; they are different species, adapted originally to a constant grazing regime in pasture. These species tend to colonise old, starved lawns of their own accord. They cannot compete with vigorous grasses.

© Marc Carlton 2009
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