Solved Wild/Meadow Flower ID

I planted a couple of packets of wildflower seeds last year. These are now starting to flower and would help with the ID of these 4.
I know number 3 is Calendula/Marigold, can this be considered a wild flower? In fact what is a flower v wildflower v weed ?
TIA

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1) Red Campion or Corncockle (flowers are tatty, check the leaves)

2) Calendula

3) Oxe-eye Daisy

4) Corn Marigold

 

Hmm!
Plants have beautiful flowers as a means to attract butterflies, insects, bats etc to the plant to fertilise it.
Purely there for sex...some flowers may have beautiful scent, masses of pollen etc
Seeds are then produced...eg. Dandelion.

A wild flower may be a stunning flower, but it is not normally grown in a garden setting.
It is more likely to be in a wood, a meadow or roadside verge...... eg Dandelion.

But they don't know the rules as made by humans. A weed is a beautiful flower that is growing where you do not want it to grow...it may have escaped from a field or roadside verge ....eg Dandelion.
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But think again...
Many of the fabulous plants that we love to grow in our gardens come from abroad...there they are called wild flowers...growing naturally on mountains, jungles, deserts or river beds...seeds have been collected and brought back to UK. In our gardens we love them as they are gorgeous...from wild flowers they now become just flowers...eg Impatiens glandulifera.

But oops..in our gardens that flower becomes too happy...they grow too big...they become invasive...now that beautiful flower has become a pest...a weed..eg Impatiens glandulifera.
Man kind has changed the habitat....it is more fertile/or wetter than the country it originally came from...(in the country it came from it is still perfectly behaved wild flower..a flower.)
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Hope this makes sense and helps you!

 

Just to add my bit.
I drive passed a place called Yalding Lees on my way to work. Its a kind of flood meadow.

Well around this time of the year, normally it would appear totally yellow in the spring sunshine.
Main flower being dandelions, but so thick it looks amazing.

In a months time it will be totally white, with dandelion seed heads, but still looks amazing.

Would I want it in my garden? no way.
But in that place it's really something else.

 

Cheers @Scrungee and @Silver surfer , for the wild flower ID and explantion to the perennial "what is a weed question".
#1 is Corncockle I think, the photo was tatty more than the flowers I found the macro setting on my new phone just after that photo. I'll have another look this morning

 

I am sure those dandelion seeds will be heading towards your garden as we speak

 

Hi @HarryS ,

This is a Corncockle ( Agrostemma ), .
I think yours is more likely to be a Silene or Lychnis of some sort. They're all members of the Carnation family.

 

Sorry completely forgot to check id.
1. Is Silene dioica..common name red campion or red catchfly,

 

This is a better photo , so it is Red Campion ?

 

That's the one @HarryS . It's more a wildflower than a weed and you can buy cultivated varieties of it as well.

 

@KFF cheers , the Campion from the wildflower packet of seeds is doing fine. In fact this seems the way to garden, just throw seeds on a bare patch and leave them to it!