Bird's-foot Trefoil and Thyme
by Weston Westmoreland
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Bird's-foot Trefoil and Thyme
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Weston Westmoreland
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Photograph - Photograph
Description
Common Bird's-foot Trefoil and wild Thyme.
Macro image of a tiny bird's-foot trefoil plant among wild thyme in the evening sunlight.
Lotus corniculatus is a flowering plant native to grasslands.
It is similar in appearance to some clovers. The name 'bird's foot' refers to the appearance of the seed pods on their stalk. Five leaflets are present, but with the central three held conspicuously above the others, hence the use of the name 'trefoil'. It is often used as forage and is widely used as food for livestock due to its nonbloating properties.It has been commonly planted along roadsides for erosion control.
Thymus serpyllum, known as Breckland thyme, Breckland wild thyme, wild thyme, creeping thyme,or elfin thyme, is a species of flowering plant in the mint family Lamiaceae. It is a low, usually prostrate subshrub growing to 1 inch tall with creeping stems up to 4 inches long. The oval evergreen leaves are 3–8 mm long. The strongly scented flowers are either lilac, pink-purple, magenta, or a rare white, all 4–6 mm long and produced in clusters. The hardy plant tolerates some pedestrian traffic and produces odors ranging from heavily herbal to lightly lemon, depending on the variety.
Wild thyme is a creeping dwarf evergreen shrub with woody stems and a taproot. It forms matlike plants that root from the nodes of the squarish, limp stems. The leaves are in opposite pairs, nearly stalkless, with linear elliptic round-tipped blades and untoothed margins. The plant sends up erect flowering shoots in summer. The usually pink or mauve flowers have a tube-like calyx and an irregular straight-tubed, hairy corolla. The upper petal is notched and the lower one is larger than the two lateral petals and has three flattened lobes which form a lip. Each flower has four projecting stamens and two fused carpels.
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July 20th, 2021
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