Arable, or cultivated fields are a somewhat neglected wildflower habitat yet there are many native species found nowhere else, some rare, others widespread. Many have declined greatly in recent years due to use of pesticides. Often plants inhabiting such fields need regular disturbance of the soil in order to germinate, hence they are not found in regular grassland. Cornfields are the most fruitful location, and in all fields it is the edges which have the greatest plant diversity.
