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Ornithopus sativus (common bird's-foot; Serradelle; Serradella; Pied D'Oiseau Cultive; Grosser Vogelfuss)

Synonyms: Coronilla serradella (homotypic); Ornithopodium sativum (homotypic)
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Infraspecies

Ornithopus sativus isthmocarpus (Attributes)
Ornithopus sativus macrorrhynchus
Ornithopus sativus nothomacrorrhynchus
Ornithopus sativus sativus

Attributes

Flower Type [1]  Hermaphrodite
Lifespan [1]  Annual/Perennial
Structure [2]  Herb
Usage [1]  A good green manure crop, fixing atmospheric nitrogen and forming a good weed-excluding ground cover;
Height [1]  28 inches (0.7 m)
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Avon Gorge Woodlands 376 England, United Kingdom

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 2Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0