*Lotus corniculatus Linnaeus. Common name: Birdsfoot-trefoil, Eggs-and-Bacon. Phenology: Jun-Sep. Habitat: Fields, roadsides, and waste places. Distribution: Native of Eurasia. First reported for GA (Rabun County) by Stiles & Howel (1998).
Origin/Endemic status: Eurasia
Taxonomy Comments: Lotus corniculatus is probably an allotetraploid species derived from hybridization of Lotus tenuis and Lotus uliginosus. POWO (2024) accepts 5 subspecies, of which only ssp. corniculatus is known to be naturalized in North America.
Synonymy ⓘ: = Ar, C, Can, F, FNA11.1, G, GrPl, Il, K4, Mi, Mo3, NcTx, NE, NS, NY, Pa, RAB, S, SE3, Tat, Tn, Tx, Va, W, WV, Isely (1981), Kramina et al (2018); < Lotus corniculatus L. — Isely (1998); > Lotus corniculatus ssp. corniculatus — POWO
Links to other floras: = Lotus corniculatus - FNA11.1
Wetland Indicator Status:
- Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain: FACU
- Eastern Mountains and Piedmont: FACU
- Great Plains: FACU
- Midwest: FACU
- Northcentral & Northeast: FACU
Heliophily ⓘ: 8
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Horticultural Information
Intro | Stems | Leaves | Inforescence | Flowers | Fruits | Comments | Height | plant sale text | bloom table text | description | stems | leaves | inflorescence | flowers | fruits | comments | cultural notes | germination code | native range |
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Prostrate to erect perennial of fields, roadsides and waste places. Native of Eurasia. | Stems numerous and sprawling from a single root crown, somewhat branched, smooth to sparsely hairy. | Leaves alternate and essentially sessile, pinnately divided into 5 oblong-lance-shaped leaflets, each to ¾ in. long, the lower 2 of which resemble stipules; smooth to somewhat hairy. | Flowers in umbels of 3--12 on long stalks from upper leaf axils, yellow, ½ in. long, bilaterally symmetric, with typical pea-flower shape, including a pale green tubular calyx with long, narrow teeth. | Fruit a cylindric (sometimes flattened), linear pod. | 1 1/2-2 ft. | Prostrate to erect perennial of fields, roadsides and waste places. Native of Eurasia. | Stems numerous and sprawling from a single root crown, somewhat branched, smooth to sparsely hairy. | Leaves alternate and essentially sessile, pinnately divided into 5 oblong-lance-shaped leaflets, each to ¾ in. long, the lower 2 of which resemble stipules; smooth to somewhat hairy. | Flowers in umbels of 3--12 on long stalks from upper leaf axils, yellow, ½ in. long, bilaterally symmetric, with typical pea-flower shape, including a pale green tubular calyx with long, narrow teeth. | Fruit a cylindric (sometimes flattened), linear pod. |
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