Soil dumped at the end of a football pitch intended to help lengthen it eventually, had come from railway ballast which exactly the sort of habitat that Small toadflax likes. This tiny plant has a toadflax or Snap-dragon type of flower shape but you have to get close the flowers are very small.

This plant is common throughout England, Wales and southern Scotland but less often recorded in Ireland where it prefers the east.

Waste Ground in Redbrook Village, Glocucestershire 6th September 2005

Added on 15th September 2005, updated 28th November 2008, updated 12th March 2010, updated 3rd November 2015