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Fabaceae
Common bird's-foot trefoil
Lotus corniculatus
Also known as Lotus corniculatus subsp. minor, Bird's foot deervetch, Lotus corniculatus var. ericetorum, Egg and bacon
Flowering Plants · Native Plants · Trefoil · Legume · Nitrogen-Fixing · Yellow-Flowers · Drought-Tolerant · Pollinator · Meadow · Groundcover · Hardy · Low-Maintenance
Bird's-foot trefoil is a hardy legume that fixes nitrogen in soil and requires minimal care once established. It produces cheerful yellow flowers that attract pollinators and tolerates poor soils well. This drought-tolerant plant is excellent for naturalized areas, meadows, or low-maintenance groundcover.
Growing conditions
The details behind the basics
- Daily light
- 6 hours
- Watering
- Deep watering when soil becomes dry, drought tolerant once established · Weekly during dry spells
- Maintenance
- Low
- Soil
- loam
- Soil pH
- 5.5–7.5
- Temperature
- -30°F to 95°F
- Cycle
- Perennial
- Propagation
- Seed
Hardiness
USDA 4a-10b
Form & growth
Mature size and habit
- Mature height
- 2 ft – 5 ft
- Spread
- 2 ft
- Spacing
- 12 in apart
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Root depth
- Medium
- Flowers
- Yes
- Foliage
- Medium
Ecology & origin
Where it belongs and what it brings
- Native to
- Afghanistan, Alabama, Albania, Algeria, Amsterdam-St.Paul Is, Argentina Northwest, Arkansas, Austria, Azores, Baleares, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Brazil South, Bulgaria, California, Cape Provinces, Central European Rus, Chile Central, Chile South
- Attracts
- Bees, Butterflies
Sources: trefle, usda
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