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Hippocrepis comosa (Horseshoe Vetch; Fer A Cheval; Hippocrepide En Ombelle; Hippocrepis A Toupet; Hufeisenklee)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Hippocrepis comosa (horseshoe vetch) is a flowering plant. Its overall appearance depends on its habitat. Sometimes it forms upright clumps of flowers and at other times sending prostrate leafy runners over areas of the downs and sometimes distributing itself as single flowers. Its common name comes from its horseshoe-like shaped pods although these flowers are considerably smaller than a horseshoe and typically flowers for a period of two weeks during the month of May. It has small yellow and sometimes orange/red flowers. The flowers often begin as orange/red and then become more yellow as they mature. It has a variable, relatively low, sometimes negligible seed production, but seedlings are still the main method of extending its range. It has a low germination rate in the wild, although
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Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  Low
Bee Flower Color [2]  Green
Flower Color [2]  Yellow
Height [3]  10 inches (.25 m)
Dispersal Mode [5]  Autochory
Lifespan [3]  Perennial
Structure [6]  Shrub
Light Preference [4]  Mostly Sunny
Soil Acidity [4]  Neutral
Soil Fertility [4]  Infertile
Soil Moisture [4]  Mostly Dry

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Consumers

Parasitized by 
Uromyces anthyllidis[8]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

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Citations

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♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
♦ 2Arnold SEJ, Faruq S, Savolainen V, McOwan PW, Chittka L, 2010 FReD: The Floral Reflectance Database — A Web Portal for Analyses of Flower Colour. PLoS ONE 5(12): e14287.
♦ 3PLANTATT - Attributes of British and Irish Plants: Status, Size, Life History, Geography and Habitats, M. O. Hill, C. D. Preston & D. B. Roy, Biological Records Centre, NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (2004)
♦ 4ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999)
♦ 5Paula S, Arianoutsou M, Kazanis D, Tavsanoglu Ç, Lloret F, Buhk C, Ojeda F, Luna B, Moreno JM, Rodrigo A, Espelta JM, Palacio S, Fernández-Santos B, Fernandes PM, and Pausas JG. 2009. Fire-related traits for plant species of the Mediterranean Basin. Ecology 90: 1420.
Paula S. & Pausas J.G. 2013. BROT: a plant trait database for Mediterranean Basin species. Version 2013.06.
♦ 6Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 7Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 8Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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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