Common Bird's-foot-trefoil
Lotus corniculatus L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- —
- tall
- 22 cm
- wide
- 51 cm
Fabaceae
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Perennial or annualKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Temp. Eurasia, Macaronesia to NE. & E. Trop. Africa, SW. Arabian Pen.Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from Plants For A Future, one source
- Height
- 18 cm to 25 cmRead from Wikipedia and Plants For A Future, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: Wikipedia 5–20 cm; Plants For A Future 0.3–0.3 m
- Spread
- 51 cmRead from Plants For A Future, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -40 °C (USDA zone 3a)Read from Plants For A Future, one source
Not known yet: water, flowers, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (11)
- German
- Artengruppe Gewöhnlicher Hornklee
- Chinese (China)
- 百脉根复合群
- Dutch
- Gewone rolklaver-complex, Gewone rolklaver
- Simplified Chinese
- 五叶草, 牛角花, 百脉根
- Chinese
- 地羊鹊, 百脉根, 百脉根花
- Asturian
- zapatinos del rei
- Czech
- štírovník růžkatý
- Welsh
- pysen-y-ceirw
- Finnish
- keltamaite
- French
- lotier corniculé
- Slovenian
- navadna nokota
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Plants For A Future, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 4.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Lotus corniculatus (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.