Lotus corniculatus (Bird's-Foot Treefoil) - photos and description
Looking straight down on plant.
Leaves pinnate with 5 leaflets.
General: Floriferous perennial plants with a prostrate, decumbent, to erect growth habit. Stems sparingly hairy.
Flowers: Flowers bright yellow with red stripes, growing in umbels of up to 6 flowers. We measured a flower at 13 mm long.
Leaves: Leaves alternate, pinnate with 5 leaflets, we measured the terminal leaflet of the leaf highlighted above at 8 mm long by 5 mm wide.
Height: Stem length listed in Budd's Flora to 60 cm, we measured stems to a length of 36 cm long.
Habitat: Ditches and roadsides, more so in the parklands and boreal forest.
Abundance: Listed as fairly common in Checklist of the Vascular Plants of Saskatchewan.
Origin: Introduced.
When and where photographed: Took the above photos on July 13th, mowed grassy area, University of Regina, in our home city of Regina, SK.