Sainfoin
Onobrychis viciifolia Scop.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- —
- tall
- 99 cm
- wide
- —
Fabaceae
Also called Sanfoin, Common sainfoin, Esparcet, Holy-clover
Formerly Hedysarum montanum, Hedysarum onobrychioides, Hedysarum onobrychis, Onobrychis bifera, and 9 more
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
- PerennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- C. & SE. EuropeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from Plants For A Future, one source
- Height
- 99 cmRead from Plants For A Future, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -28.9 °C (USDA zone 5a)Read from Plants For A Future, one source
Not known yet: spread, water, flowers, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Italian
- lupinella
- German
- Saat-Esparsette, Futter-Esparsette, Futteresparsette
- French
- Sainfoin cultivé, Esparcette cultivée, Esparcette à feuilles de vesce
- Czech
- vičenec ligrus
- Danish
- Foder-esparsette, Foder-Esparsette
- Spanish
- esparceta, Pipirigallo, pipirigallo
- Dutch
- Esparcette, esparcette
- Norwegian Bokmål
- esparsett
- Russian
- Эспарцет виколистный, Эспарцет горошколистный
- Finnish
- rehuesparsetti, Esparsetti
- Portuguese
- Sanfeno-forrageiro
- Lithuanian
- Sėjamasis esparcetas
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
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Onobrychis viciifolia (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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