Four fair flowers found on the farm today!

While treating myself to some social distancing on the farm, in the sun, I came across a little white flower. Well, more than one little white flower, great clusters of little white flowers filling the median between the planted field and the fencerow. I let myself sit with them, feeling their leaves, tracing their petals with my eyes. The longer I sat the more variety I found. This wasn't one great cluster of the same plant, it was four different species all opening their little white flowers to the warm sun!

This image shows three different species all with small blooming white flowers!

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Early Whitlow Grass

 (Erophila verna - formerly Draba verna) we learned all about in the post here.

From the long stem a cluster of flowers - each with four bifid petals (forked giving the appearance of more - mouse eared chickweed is this way too).

A rosette base of ovate to elliptic leaves covered in tiny hairs.

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Hairy Bittercress

(Cardamine hirsuta) 

Each flower has four white petals.

The basal leaflets are orbicular to oval in shape and slightly undulate along their margins; the outer leaflets are larger in size than the inner leaflets.

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Speedwell

(Veronica something - due to the small size and leaf shape maybe Veronica polita)
Generally speedwell flowers are blue/violet with white centers so this one's a bit of a mystery to me. The vining qualities and four overlapping petals are what lead me to believe it's a Veronica.

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Common Chickweed

(Stellaria media)
​Another great vining plant with tiny white flowers. Five white bifid petals giving the appearance of 10 tiny petals. 

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All the flowers are non-native and a few get rather weedy and aggressive, but it sure in nice seeing things in bloom! 
​Look at the very first image again... can you tell what 3 are in the photo?