A very distinctive plant community you’ll see on your exercise walk is the dog-latrine. The dominant plant is the attractive grass Hordeum murinum which, in Scotland, has the brilliant name ‘Bus-stop Grass’. The associated species are rather variable (see below).
Sisymbrium officinale (Brassicaceae, left). Crepis vesicaria subsp. taraxacifolia (right, Asteraceae). Very similar rosettes, but from entirely different families.
Read on Twitter