Lotus corniculatus

Birds-Foot Trefoil at Booth, ACT

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Identification history

	Lotus corniculatus	29 Mar 2016	MichaelMulvaney
	Lotus corniculatus	23 Mar 2016	gregbaines

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3 comments

BettyDonWood wrote:

24 Mar 2016

Probably OK. Lotus corniculatus has more or less hairless stems, flowers more than 9 mm long, and pods under 3 cm long. Lotus subbiflorus has hairy stems, flowers less than 9 mm long, and pods more than 6 mm long. The keel in both species is about the same.

gregbaines wrote:

24 Mar 2016

I will send a sample off to the hebarium for confirmation. This species was common at the spot Ryu photographed the unusual red flowered plant that you thought might be Lotus cruentus and Michael Mulvaney thought might be Kennedia rubicunda. My guess it that the plant was a variant of L. conrniculatus. I couldn't find any red flowered plants when I visited the site.

ArcherCallaway wrote:

24 Mar 2016

Interesting.
I had mentioned in my comments initially that there were many similar yellow-flowered ones around, but I wasn't sure if they were the same species. The were a few plants with red flowers though and I didn't notice any with both red and yellow coloured flowers

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101 - 1,000 Abundance
22 Mar 2016 12:00 AM Recorded on
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Plants Peas gregbaines Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Lotus corniculatus

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True In flower

Species information

Lotus corniculatus Scientific name
Birds-Foot Trefoil Common name
Not Sensitive
Exotic
Medium weed or pest
Up to 1654.41m Recorded at altitude
In flower
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