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Lotus corniculatus
Lotus corniculatus is a flowering plant in the pea family Fabaceae, native to grasslands in temperate Eurasia and North Africa. Common names include common bird's-foot trefoil, eggs and bacon, birdsfoot deervetch, and just bird's-foot trefoil, though the latter name is often also applied to other members of the genus.
10 branches of this group, most-observed first
bird's-foot trefoil
speciesLotus corniculatus
narrow-leaf bird's-foot trefoil
speciesLotus tenuis
Alpine Bird's-Foot Trefoil
speciesLotus alpinus
Lotus carpetanus
speciesLotus carpetanus
Lotus borbasii
speciesLotus borbasii
Krylov's Trefoil
speciesLotus krylovii
Lotus × ucrainicus
hybridLotus × ucrainicus
Lotus stepposus
speciesLotus stepposus
Lotus glareosus
speciesLotus glareosus
Lotus frondosus
speciesLotus frondosus
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1453363.