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Lotus subbiflorus
Also called Lesser Birdsfoot Trefoil, Hairy Birdsfoot Trefoil
Hairy bird's-foot trefoil is a finely hairy annual pea-family plant of dry, sandy, often coastal ground, with sprawling stems and lemon-yellow pea flowers. Give it full sun and free-draining sandy soil, and let it self-seed.
Lotus subbiflorus, the hairy bird's-foot trefoil, is a flowering plant of the pea family Fabaceae.
It is a finely hairy annual plant, growing in dry, sandy ground, often near the sea, and producing sprawling stems with clusters of two to four lemon-yellow pea-type flowers, often with some borne inverted.
Its native distribution is in southern and western Europe and North Africa. It occurs as a scarce plant in south-west England, southern Wales, southern Ireland and in the Channel Islands. It also occurs as an introduced species in Hawaii and Australia.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Lotus subbiflorus by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
