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.