Birdsfoot trefoil

The Birdsfoot trefoil ( Lotus corniculatus L.) is a long-lived herbaceous plant of the family of the Fabaceae usually cultivated like fodder plant.

Description

It is a low plant, rather laid down, with the sheets with 5 leaflets, ovals, the basal ones resembling stipulate.

The flowers yellow or yellow-orange are in small heads.

Characteristics

reproductive bodies:

Standard of inflorescence: ombelle simple
distribution of the sexes: Standard hermaphrodite
of pollination: entomogame
Period of flowering: May at September

Standard seed

of fruit: Pod
Mode of dissemination: barochore

Habitat and standard distribution

Habitat: Western, mesohydric basophilic lawns médioeuropéennes
Surface of distribution: eurasiatic Southerner

Use

It is a cultivated Fodder plant which enters the mix design of seeds for mixed meadows Graminée S Légumineuse S.

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