Wildflower ID please

[BuddingGardener]

Hi I hope you can help.
I threw a packet of butterfly and bee attracting seeds in a pot.
They grew that much that I have put them in 2 pots, I know they are massively overcrowded but I don't have space for any more pots
Does anyone know what they are?
To me it looks like long clover leaves and the tall thing looks like a weed although it has buds on it
I've lots of green in my garden but not many flowers yet
I tried a Plant App which was rubbish
Hope you can help

The first one looks like one of the knapweed family - I don't know which, some of them are rather lovely. It will be easier to tell when the flowers are out.

I'm wondering if the one in with the clover is flax?

First pic is scabious or knapweed - wait till it flowers and you'll be able to tell. Plant apps are great when the plant is in flower - I did a free trial of PictureThis to clear up a few queries on my regular walks.

The large one is a cornflower, centaurea, or knapweed, they will open up to a lovely dark\mid blue daisy type flower. They need staking ,mine have blown over with the winds, they are still lovely though. The shorter floppy leaved one is difficult to name. it'll probably be easier to recognise when it does flower.

It could be Rutaceae or Hop tree Water ash, it has green flowers that are a bit like angelica. it's the only one that looks like yours in my RHS Plant Guide book .

The first one really looks like knapweed but as others have said when it flowers soon it will become obvious.

Are any of the others on here maybe? www.scottishwildflowers.org/

I think that the 2nd floppy looking one one looks like young ivy, the leaves start out like that. I've got the same in my garden. The flowers arrive very late and are nothing special BUT the birds and insects love them. It climbs so you'll need to put it by your fence or wherever.

BTW bees and butterflies are attracted to "weeds" as you call them , they are just wild plants. The ivy will have round black berries eventually.

First one, as people are saying, is a knapweed or cornflower, ie a Centaurea. It's not a scabious. The black eyelashes on the bud show that it's not common knapweed (which has the eyelashes in straight-bottomed triangle at the top of the green scale) or greater knapweed (which has the eyelashes in an inverted horseshoe at the top of the green scale). Pattern of eyelashes is very similar to Centaurea montana, the perennial cornflower, but the leaves look too narrow for that. But I'd expect it to be a cornflower rather than a knapweed.

Yes, bees an butterflies are attracted to "weeds", ie plants native to the country they're living in. But failing that, they can be attracted to what the RHS calls "near natives", northern European plants. What's no use to them is plants like the double opium poppies where pollen bearing stamens have been converted to extra petals, or exotics adapted to pollination by hummingbirds etc. I don't think there's much in that pot that looks native! the Centaurea isn't and I'm not convinced that the clover is one of ours.

Do you think the floppy leaved one is ivy Mere?

It's funny about the Centaurea because the RHS book I mentioned calls it "Knapweed" in brackets beneath.

Thanks for all your comments and suggestions, I've checked all suggestions and I'm still not sure what I've got. I'm going to have to be patient.
I will update when they flower

Do you think the floppy leaved one is ivy Mere? I was trying to work out which one you meant. I couldn't see anything that I thought was ivy.

Centaurea nigra - knapweed, Centaurea scabiosa - greater knapweed - Centaurea montana - perennial cornflower, Centaurea cyanus - cornflower. All in the same genus.

The short plant with wide leaves in the pot in front of the cornflowers!

That looks like a variety of clover. Not ivy.

Clover. The leaves are clearly trefoil, 3 leaflets joined.

My young ivy, the new leaves,not the old, looks like it. Clover is tiny surely? Oh well perhaps the OP has got the packet somewhere

Unfortunately the packet is in the bin.
I moved them to a more sheltered area, more buds but none have opened yet
Will update with any progress

Clover is tiny surely Depends which clover. White clover is a few inches high, and in a lawn will grow prostrate. Red clover and zigzag clover is typically about 20 - 30cm high. I have a non-UK clover which is nearly 50cm high.

Hi
Another plant has appeared
Don't know what this one is either I've added a photo of it and another of the plants at their new spot

Vaguely like Tagetes, but that's by no means a firm identification.

I’d imagine this one is a red clover, I think they tend to be added to such mixes. I think you have cornflowers in there too.

Yes to clover, not ivy, the marks on the leaves are showing now, it's a large type as you say Mere The big one in the middle I've not seen before , it looks a bit like basil, maybe 'green rufflles'