Seasonal Wild Flowers

Bird's-foot-trefoil

Lotus corniculatus

Fabaceae

May to September

Common Bird's-foot-trefoil, Bacon and Eggs, Tom Thumb

It is found throughout the country.

See the BSBI distribution map for Bird's-foot-trefoil

It grows in a range of dry grasslands

Bird's-foot-trefoil is a native, perennial herb, which can

grow as a prostrate cushion or up to 50cm in taller

grassland.

Flowers are deep yellow and often streaked or tipped

with red and orange.

The calex teeth are elongated and triangular.

Flowerheads have between 2 to 7 flowers per head.

Leaves are trifoliate leaflets

Cushion of Bird's-foot-trefoil

'Bacon and Eggs'

Flowerhead

Close-up of flowers

Calyx and bracts

Bird's-foot pods

Leaves

Bacon and egg on canal wall

Hummock on wall