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Yellow bird's-foot

Ornithopus pinnatus

Also called Orange Bird's Foot, Slender Serradella, Yellow Serradella

Yellow bird's-foot
Photo: Nicola van Berkel, CC BY-SA 4.0
Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Annual
Native range
Macaronesia, W. Europe to Medit.
Climate
temperate

About

Ornithopus pinnatus, the orange birdsfoot, is a plant in the Fabaceae family. It was first described as Scorpiurus pinnata in 1768 by Philip Miller in The Gardeners Dictionary. In 1907, George Claridge Druce assigned it to the genus Ornithopus.

It is native to Western Europe, the Mediterranean Region and Macaronesia but is found elsewhere as an introduced species.

Other Ornithopus plants

Little white bird's-foot · Common bird's-foot · Bird's-foot

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Ornithopus pinnatus by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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.

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