Species: Greater Bird's-foot-trefoil (Lotus pedunculatus)

Family: Legumes (FABACEAE or LEGUMINOSAE)

Category: Flowering Plants

Location: NW

A. Flowering Plants

More extensive information on flowering plants can be found in a separate blog post.

B. Legumes (FABACEAE or LEGUMINOSAE)

Legume seedpod crops are commercially very important for human consumption, livestock forage, silage, and nitrogen-rich 'green manure'.

C. Greater Bird's-foot-trefoil (Lotus pedunculatus)

This trefoil is larger and more erect than the Common species.

Images

Greater Bird's-foot-trefoil

Greater Bird's-foot-trefoil is larger and more erect than the Common Bird's-foot-trefoil species.

Greater Bird's-foot-trefoil

Legume seedpod crops, which include this Greater Bird's-foot-trefoil, are commercially very important for human consumption, livestock forage, silage, and nitrogen-rich 'green manure'.

Greater Bird's-foot-trefoil