Common name:
Greater bird's-foot trefoil
Family:
Scientific name:
Lotus pedunculatus
Main flower color:
Range:
All of the UK
Height:
Up to 60 cm
Habitat:
Damp grassland, marshes
Flowers:
In clusters of up to 15 heads, at the tip of a hairy stalk up to 15 cm long. Flowers are yellow, not normally tinged orange-red, apart from the red veins of the banner petal. Calyxes are hairy, and the lobes are shorter than the tube. The angle between the uppermost pair of lobes is less than 90 degrees
Fruit:
Slender pods
Leaves:
Pinnately divided, with three oval leaflets at the tip and another pair a little lower down; all are oval in shape, sparsely to densely hairy, and up to 2 cm long
Season:
June to August
Rarity:
★★★★★
