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Onobrychis venosa, veined sainfoin, is a small perennial herb of the pea family from Cyprus, grown mainly as a wildflower or in dry, sunny rock and gravel gardens. It thrives in lean, well-drained soil and needs very little care once established.
Onobrychis venosa, veined sainfoin is a perennial, spreading or suberect herb 10–25 cm high, with a short stem. Leaves alternate, compound, imparipinnate, leaflets ovoid to suborbicular 10-40 x 5–30 mm with characteristic bronze venation (hence venosa), hairy only along margins. Zygomorphic flowers with yellow petals with conspicuous dark-red nerves in axillary racemes. Flowers from February to May. The fruit is a circular flattened hairy pod.
Habitat usually on dry hillsides on limestone but also on igneous formations or near the coast, from sea level to 950 m.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Onobrychis venosa 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.
