''Lotus subbiflorus'', hairy bird's-foot trefoil,
is a flowering plant of the pea family
.
It is a finely hairy
annual plant
An annual plant is a plant that completes its life cycle, from germination to the production of seeds, within one growing season, and then dies. The length of growing seasons and period in which they take place vary according to geographical ...
, growing in dry, sandy ground, often near the sea, and producing sprawling stems with clusters of two to four lemon-yellow
pea
The pea is most commonly the small spherical seed or the seed-pod of the flowering plant species ''Pisum sativum''. Each pod contains several peas, which can be green or yellow. Botanically, pea pods are fruit, since they contain seeds and d ...
-type
flowers, often with some borne inverted.
Distribution
Its native distribution is in southern and western
Europe and
North Africa.
It occurs as a scarce plant in south-west
England, southern
Wales, southern
Ireland and in the
Channel Islands.
[ It also occurs as an introduced species in Hawaii][ and ]Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma ...
.[Florabase, the Western Australia Flora](_blank)
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References
subbiflorus
Flora of England
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