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FIG 153. Corn marigold, an increasingly rare plant, in a field near Middleton. (Harold Grenfell)

TABLE 13. The 20 most abundant arable plants in Gower. (Adapted from Kay, 1997a)

RANK COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME

1 Annual meadow-grass Poa annua

2 Fat hen Chenopodium album

3 Chickweed Stellaria media

4 Pineappleweed Matricaria discoidea

5 Common orache Atriplex patula

6 Prickly sow-thistle Sonchus asper

7 Perennial rye-grass Lolium perenne

8 Creeping buttercup Ranunculus repens

9 Redleg Persicaria maculosa

10 Shepherd's purse Capsella bursa-pastoris

11 Pale persicaria Persicaria lapathifolia

12 Groundsel Senecio vulgaris

13 Knotgrass Polygonium aviculare

14 White clover Trifolium repens

=15 Black bent Agrostis gigantea

=15 Scentless mayweed Tripleurospermum inodorum

=17 Scarlet pimpernel Anagallis arvensis

=17 Spear thistle Cirsium vulgare

19 Cut-leaved dead-nettle Lamium hybridum

20 Field woundwort Stachys arvensis