By Solada
Cheshire,
United Kingdom 
Can some knowledgeable person recognize these two wild flowers which have suddenly grown in my daughter's garden.The orange ones have come all over her front lawn about 4 inches high,look very pretty actually.
Thank you
11 Jun, 2020
Answers
The hawkweed is a blackfly honeypot - they nearly always seem to get them on the stems. Its country name is hen and chickens, I don't know why!
11 Jun, 2020
Thank you both,I like to know the names of unknown plants etc.
Take care🙂
11 Jun, 2020
I love orange hawkweed - some popped up in my front garden three years ago and I've kept them there. Such a pretty colour! I've always known them as fox and cubs. Would love to know the origins of the common names!
11 Jun, 2020
Hi Chickenweed,I just looked it up and ,yes,it is Fox and cubs.
So pretty, going to dig a couple up and put in my garden.
Yes,It would be interesting to find out how plants ge t their common names.😀
Take care of yourself.
11 Jun, 2020
Take care, they are appalling thugs. They spread both by copious seed and runners.
11 Jun, 2020
When I was little I was told it was fox and cubs as you get one open flower first with lots of buds just showing colour so a vixen with her smaller cubs around her.
11 Jun, 2020
Well I suppose a red hen with little chicks might be similar.
I retire outnumbered....
11 Jun, 2020
no Stera don't retire you are still so young, that is the trouble with common names they are different depending on where you come from.
11 Jun, 2020
Thanks to everyone,the theory of hen and chickens and fox and cubs has the same meaning...so everyone is right.I think the idea is lovely as the flower does look like that.
Have a good day and take care 😄
12 Jun, 2020
I agree that hawkbit is a vicious thug. Falling for it's beauty I planted some in my last garden. Big mistake! Took ages to get rid of it so I now admire it from afar.
13 Jun, 2020
I think you are right Arbuthnot that it can be a thug. We are on clay which it doesn't like so much and I have planted it on the field where it can do it's thing if it likes, once it has contended with the heavy clay and marauding rabbits!
Meant to say I knew it as Hen and chicks Stera, but when I looked it up that came up as one of the succulents, so I never mentioned that!
13 Jun, 2020
I love the top one and grow it on my field where I can. It's Orange Hawkweed (Pilosella aurantiacum) or renamed now Hieracium aurantiacum. A British native.
The bottom one is one of the Trefoils I would think, possibly Hairy Birdsfoot Trefoil (Lotus subbiflorus).
11 Jun, 2020