Can anyone advise on what plants to leave when sowing wildflower meadow perennials?
I'm planning to sow wildflower meadow perennials in some of my 'lawn'. The grass is rough and very patchy - the soil is poor, full of stones etc, sandy and well drained. Grass struggles to grow in it. I'm hoping it will be suitable for wildflower meadow perennials.
I've not cut the grass for about a month to see what comes up, and lots of small yellow flowers have grown. I assume they're some sort of dandelion (consulting the Collins guide to wild flowers is not very helpful as there are hundreds of plants that look similar). Can anyone confirm from this picture what they are? Should I weed out these flowers before sowing meadow seed, or leave them? A lot of them will be removed when I rake up the grass to expose the soil, but a number will be left.
Thanks for any advice.

I've not cut the grass for about a month to see what comes up, and lots of small yellow flowers have grown. I assume they're some sort of dandelion (consulting the Collins guide to wild flowers is not very helpful as there are hundreds of plants that look similar). Can anyone confirm from this picture what they are? Should I weed out these flowers before sowing meadow seed, or leave them? A lot of them will be removed when I rake up the grass to expose the soil, but a number will be left.
Thanks for any advice.

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However this site ( https://wildflowerfinder.org.uk/Menu2/Family/FamilyInfo/Info_Asteraceae.htm#HIERACIUM ) does have some useful pictures/tips for identifying them and the differences between them so maybe have a look and compare with the different Hawkbit's, Hawkweeds, Hawksbeards etc
For instance does it look particularly like this: https://wildflowerfinder.org.uk/Flowers/C/Catsear/Catsear.htm or https://wildflowerfinder.org.uk/Flowers/H/Hawkbit(Rough)/Hawkbit(Rough).htm
Bearing in mind they are wildflowers themselves, if you're truly going for a 'wild' look then you could just consider them some helpful volunteers, and I believe dandelions and it's relatives/look-a-likes are actually considered to be very important as a steady, reliable flower for insects.
However, as anyone knows, a lot of them are also extremely prolific, so it's entirely possible you could sow the wildflowers you actually intended to grow and find them squeezed out in future years by these.
Personally depending on the surroundings, and whether you have other areas you want to keep 'tidy', any neighbours (e.g if you have a neighbour with a pristine rose garden, maybe not.) etc I would be tempted to leave them and then if they do persist then just be a bit more attentive in terms of controlling them specifically, and try and catch the seed heads/clocks as much as possible. It also depends on exactly what plants you were intending to grow there, since some will be better able to compete than others most likely as a lot of 'meadow wildflowers' are actually just as, if not more rampant than dandelions.
If you want to be on the safe side, I would dig them out, and you could always wait til a few of those flowers are spent and try and snatch up the seed heads in a jar to save if you decide you want them back later (Though bearing in mind they had to come from somewhere, it's possible you'll be seeing them again next year regardless of what you do).
However 1) I don't have mountains of experience myself so who knows, and 2) I think Dandelions and their look-a-likes are quite pretty so I'm already favourably disposed towards them, which not everyone does.