Any help in identifying these flowers would be greatly appreciated.

Both were growing in fields in Hampshire and I took the photos yesterday.

Thank you.

The second flower look like culvers root( Veronicastrum)

The first flowers look familiar but have to think on it (old brain )

In the first photo the leaves look like a form of vetch but the flower look different than any I am familiar with

Flowers look to be of the pea family like lupine but the leaves are wrong

Maybe someone else can help

Thank you for your reply.

Someone has suggested to me that the vetch-like plant could be Hungarian Vetch (which I have never heard of), though looking at pictures of this, I'm unconvinced. The leaves were definitely vetch like, but as you say, the flowers were more lupin-like, though they were definitely not any sort of lupins. They were pea-like, but in upright 'spires'.

As for the other one, I can certainly see the similarity with the plant you mention. Someone else suggested Sweet Mignonette, which is similar to the one you suggested.

Hungarian vetch is rather like what I call purple vetch (V.americana)or harry vetch -(V . villosa).


Vicia pannonica the Latin name for Hungarian vetch -used here as a forage crop inter planted with some other stuff

the problem with the photo is it shows a flower spike with flowers encircling the stalk , all the vetches I am familiar the flowers are on one side

The flowers form is like red clover ? but not quite

There are tons of vetches maybe one I am not familiar with
Good luck
I will watch for updates
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....as fort the other flower sweet mignonette , If that is Reseda odorata , I have grown that flower and it is not the second photo

The pink may be sainfoin. It's grown as a forage crop.

Thank you!