Plant identification

Shonabea

Can any one please advise me what this plant is? We are trying to make the field a wildflower meadow. They look like fruit bushes or tree saplings but have very strong roots and the plants themselves are soft till you get go the base

Dovefromabove

Those look like suckers growing up from some tree roots ... what trees are growing nearby? Or have some trees recently been felled?

Shonabea

Thanks for your comment. We have quite a few trees around the edge of the field, apple, plum, beech, walnut, cherry and a few fir trees but none of them appear to have the same leaves as the plant in question. The roots are so strong and long though, they may well be suckers

Dovefromabove

They’re likely to be from prunus as they sucker prolifically, especially if the trees have had some hard pruning ... so plum and cherry. 

The leaves will look a bit different as they will be coming from the rootstock and be different from the grafted top growth.  

Just keep mowing them short. They’ll give up ... eventually. 

😊 

Shonabea

Thanks for your help. That's good news. We will just keep cutting them down