Ornithopus perpusillus |
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bird's foot, little white bird's-foot |
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Stems | 5–30 cm. |
Leaves | 10–40 × 5–10 mm; stipules deltate, 1 mm; leaflets 15–27, blades ovate, elliptic, or oblong, leaflets of larger leaves 3–6 × 1–3 mm. |
Peduncles | 1–3 cm in flower, 2–5 cm in fruit. |
Pedicels | 0–1 mm. |
Flowers | calyx 2–2.5 mm, lobes 0.4–0.7 mm, 1/4–1/3 tube length; corolla white or pink, sometimes with darker lines, 3–5 mm. |
Heads | 3–8-flowered, 5 mm diam.; bract equaling or longer than flowers, 5–9-foliolate. |
Seeds | 1 × 1 mm. |
Loments | compressed, constricted between seeds, 10–18(–25) × 1.5–2 mm; segments 4–9, elliptic-oblong, 2–2.5 mm; beaks straight, often hooked at tip, 1–3 mm. |
2n | = 14. |
Ornithopus perpusillus |
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Phenology | Flowering late spring–summer. |
Habitat | Disturbed ground, roadsides, waste places. |
Elevation | 10–50 m. (0–200 ft.) |
Distribution |
OR; PA; BC; Europe; temperate w Asia [Introduced in North America] |
Source | FNA vol. 11. |
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Name authority | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 2: 743. (1753) |
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