Ivydene Gardens Peaflowers Wild Flower Family Gallery:
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Peaflower Family:- The Peaflower Family is "a large family with highly distinctive individual flowers; of the 5 petals, the broad and often erect upper one is known as the 'standard', the two narrower side ones as the 'wings', and the two central lower ones, which enfold the 10 bundled stamens, as the 'keel'. The seeds are in pod (legume) of varying size but usually in the general pattern of a garden pea or bean. Leaves mostly alternate, but the top pair sometimes almost opposite; usually stalked and trifoliate (trefoil) or pinnate, with stipules at their base." from Collins Pocket Guide to Wild Flowers by David McClintock and R.S.R. Fitter assisted by Francis Rose - ISBN 0 00 219363 9 - Eleventh Impression 1978. Peaflower Family plant table with its Common Name - Botanical Name. Flowering Months Range. Habitat with link to that Peaflowers Wild Flower Family Gallery:- |
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Botanical Name |
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Habitat |
CLOVERS |
Clovers are non-woody plants, rarely over a foot high, with trefoil leaves. The small individual flowers are usually clustered in a dense head; the petals (wings always longer than keel) generally remain after flowering and conceal the tiny pod; calyx 5-toothed. |
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Alpine Milk-Vetch |
Astragalus alpinus |
A perennial herb of species-rich, locally flushed calcareous grassland, and on base-rich ledges and rocky outcrops. Montane, from 650 m (Ben Vrackie, E. Perth) to 770 m (Creig an Dail Bheag, S. Aberdeen). |
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Flower from Einodsbach on 15 July |
Flowers from Einodsbach on 15 July |
Foliage from Einodsbach on 15 July |
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Alsike Clover |
Trifolium hybridum |
June onwards |
An annual of grassy banks, meadows, roadsides and waste places. It is a frequent, often unintentional, constituent of seed mixtures, but rarely persists once a closed sward has developed. Its persistence in some areas probably relies on repeated introductions. 0-350 m at Stainmore (Westmorland). |
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Flower from Maidstone in Kent |
Flower Buds from Maidstone |
Foliage from Maidstone |
Form from Maistone |
Bladder Senna |
Colutea arborescens |
A deciduous shrub now well-established in waste places and rubbish tips, and particularly in rough grassland and scrub on railway banks. Lowland. Used in landscaping for erosion control. |
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Seed Pods from Rochester in Kent on 21 August |
Foliage from Rochester on 21 August |
Form from Rochester on 21 August |
Burrowing Clover |
Trifolium subterraneum |
A procumbent winter-annual found near the coast in open grassland or heathland on thin, free-draining neutral to acidic sands, gravels and shingle; inland it occurs in summer-parched grasslands on chalk and limestone. Lowland. Weed control using this plant used as a living mulch. |
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Flower from Kynance Cove in Cornwall on 25 May |
Flowers from Sussex |
Form from Sussex on 11 June |
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Flower in Sussex |
Flowers |
Flowers from Leybourne in Kent in April |
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Ant on Foliage in Sussex |
Foliage from Sussex on 11 June |
Foliage from Leybourne in April |
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Ant on Burrowing Clover in Sussex |
Seed in September |
Seeds from Leybourne on 29 August |
Seed from Leybourne in Kent |
Clustered Clover |
Trifolium glomeratum |
A winter-annual typically occurring in short open communities on light, drought-prone often somewhat acidic sandy or stony soils near the coast. Habitats include pathside banks, seafront lawns and cliff-slopes; also in sandy pastures, arable land and in the Isles of Scilly as a weed of bulb-fields. It is a rare casual inland. Lowland. |
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Common Birdsfoot |
Ornithopus perpusillus |
May-August |
A winter-annual of short, open grassland on free-draining acidic sands and gravels; also around rock outcrops, on sand dunes and in bare patches on dry heathland. It is frequently found on drought-prone, sunny banks beside tracks and paths, and can quickly colonise bare areas after fires and other disturbances. Generally lowland, but reaching 380 m at Ettrick (Selkirks.). |
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Flower in May |
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Flower near Cadgwith in Cornwall on 27 May |
Flowers |
Form from Cadwith on 27 May |
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Flower in Borough Green on 5 August |
Foliage from Cadgwith on 27 May |
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Form in Borough Green on 5 August |
Common Bird's-foot Trefoil |
Lotus corniculatus |
May onwards |
A perennial herb of grasslands, including well-drained meadows, chalk and limestone downs, hill pastures and montane rock ledges; also on coastal cliff-tops, shingle and sand dunes. It is absent from only the most acidic and infertile soils. Alien genotypes, introduced from seed mixtures, occur on roadsides. 0-915 m (Stuich an Lochan, Glen Lyon, Mid Perth). |
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Flower from Lands End in Cornwall on 26 May |
Flowers |
Foliage from Lands End on 26 May |
Form from Eccles on 12 June |
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Flower from Kynance Cove in Cornwall on 19 May |
Flowers from Kynance Cove on 19 May |
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Flower from Eccles on 12 June |
Flowers |
Form from Lands End on 26 May |
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Flower from Eccles on 12 June |
Flowers on 12 May |
Flower Buds from Lands End on 26 May |
Form from Strood in Kent in June |
Common Yellow Trefoil (Lesser Trefoil) |
Trifolium dubium |
May onwards |
A winter-annual of hay meadows, waysides and waste places, and also frequent in lawns. Like T. campestre, it is most frequent in dry grasslands, but can be abundant too in winter-flooded meadows and damp pastures, and can thrive even in fairly nutrient-enriched situations. It also occurs in open habitats such as on rock outcrops, quarry spoil and railway ballast. Generally lowland, but reaching 530 m at Garrigill (Cumberland). |
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Juvenile Foliage from North Yorkshire in June |
Form from North Yorkshire in June |
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Flowers from Norfolk in May |
Mature Foliage from North Yorkshire in June |
Flower Buds from Kynance Cove on 25 May |
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Foliage from Kynance Cove in Cornwall on 25 May |
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Form from Norfolk in May |
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Crimson Clover (Carnation Clover, Italian Clover) |
Trifolium incarnatum (Trifolium incarnatum subsp. incarnatum, Trifolium incarnatum L. var. elatius) |
Crimson clover is widely grown as a protein-rich forage crop for cattle and other livestock. It can typically be found in forest margins, fields and roadsides. |
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Crown Vetch |
Coronilla varia |
A sprawling perennial, naturalised in grassy habitats on roadsides, banks, in quarries and waste places. Lowland. |
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Dragon's Teeth |
A perennial herb well naturalised in rough calcareous grassland in S. England, where it is introduced with grass- or fodder-seed. Elsewhere it occurs as a casual on rubbish tips, roadsides and waste ground. Lowland. |
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Flower in August |
Flowers from Chilterns in August |
Foliage from Chilterns on 20 August |
Form from Chilterns on 20 August |
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Flower from Chilterns |
Juvenile Seed Pod |
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Seed Pod from Chilterns on 20 August |
Mature Seed Pod |
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Greater Birdsfoot Trefoil |
Lotus uliginosus (Lotus pedunculatus) |
A perennial herb of rushy pastures, wet meadows, marshes, ditches, the margins of lakes, ponds and rivers, wet road verges and other marshy places. It is probably more frequent on acidic soils than calcareous ones. Generally lowland, but reaching 490 m on Dartmoor (S. Devon) |
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Flower from Swansea Bog on 10 July |
Flowers from Swansea Bog on 10 July |
Foliage from Swansea Bog on 10 July |
Form from Swansea Bog on 10 July |
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Flower Buds from Swansea Bog on 10 July |
Foliage from Swansea Bog on 10 July |
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If the plant type below has flowers, then the first gallery will include the flower thumbnail in each month of 1 of 6 flower colour comparison pages of each plant in its subsidiary galleries Wild Flower is below The following is a complete hierarchical Plant Selection Process or Topic - Butterfly Wildlife on Plant Photo Gallery Wild Flower You can find the wild flower in one of the 23 Wild Flower Galleries or the Colour Wheel If you know which habitat it lives in, you know which family it belongs to, use you have seen its flower or seed, use you have seen its flower, use Comparison Pages containing Wild Flower Plants and Cultivated Plants in the Colour Wheel Gallery followed by all the Wild Flower Family Pages:- |
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