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Each value Trefle shows for Lotus ornithopodioides, with what every source says about it. When sources disagree, the strongest source is shown (how sources are ranked). Values imported before sources were recorded one by one are marked Source not recorded.

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Sourced4 Differs from sources2 Source not recorded9 Sources: TRY Plant Trait Database, Earlier Trefle data

Field	Shown	What the sources say
Core
Author	L.	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Bibliography	Sp. Pl.: 775 (1753)	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Phylum	Tracheophyta	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Rank	species	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Status	accepted	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Year	1753	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Descriptive
Common name	Southern bird's-foot trefoil	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Observations	Macaronesia, Medit. to Ukraine	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Morphology
Average height	5 cm	4.65 cm · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 2 observations · 2026-10-09 TRY 7.0 datasets 251, 654	Differs from sources
Biological type	therophyte	therophyte · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 2 observations · 2026-10-09 TRY 7.0 datasets 918	Sourced
Flower color	yellow	yellow · Earlier Trefle data · Reported · 2026-10-19 value present before provenance tracking (2022 import), no source recorded	Sourced
Vegetable	false	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Phenology
Bloom months	apr, may, jun	apr\|may\|jun · Earlier Trefle data · Reported · 2026-10-19 value present before provenance tracking (2022 import), no source recorded	Differs from sources
Duration	annual	annual · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 2 observations · 2026-10-09 TRY 7.0 datasets 460, 918	Sourced
Ecology
Nitrogen fixation	High	High · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 3 observations · 2026-10-09 TRY 7.0 datasets 444	Sourced

Lotus ornithopodioides L., 1753 20% complete

Southern bird's-foot trefoil

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