Skye Flora

Birdsfoot Trefoil

Lotus corniculatus

 

Lotus corniculatus

Photo © Carl Farmer
27 Aug 2002 Portree, Isle of Skye


Common on paths, rock faces, roadsides, on bare ground or short grass.

Flower c 15 mm long.

Skye ID: Calyx-teeth appressed to bud.  Angle between upper two sepal-teeth U-shaped.  See also Lotus pedunculatus

Other features: Often a ground-hugging plant, but can be more upright in rich sheltered ground.  Leaves have five leaflets but basal two are bent back so looking more like stipules.

 

  Lotus corniculatus

Photo © Carl Farmer
27 Aug 2002 Portree, Isle of Skye

  
     
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