Trough flowers

[igenlode]

Identification of the flowers that were not flax after all in the trough:

Gypsophila vaccaria (known in America as cow soapwort)


and the white Gypsophila elegans, which doesn't have the lobed calyx(?) behind the flower, or the distinctive whirled petals of the flower at the bud stage, and resembles flax more closely.

(The florist's baby's breath)

The clover was, indeed, clover, but it turned out to be *red* clover (and the poppies in that seed packet to be little white poppies!)

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[igenlode]

The seed heads of the white Gypsophila are also incredibly similar to those of flax once it has finished flowering, as well as the flowers, leaves and stems being very alike... very odd, as the two species are apparently completely unrelated.