Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Lotus subbiflorus
Common name
Hairy bird's-foot trefoil
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Woodland, shrubland, grassy areas, disturbed sites, roadsides, moist places, and swamps. Sydney area. Sporadic elsewhere. Doubtfully naturalised in the ACT.
Notes
Introduced annual or perennial herb, prostrate to sprawling or to 0.7 m tall, hairy. Leaves alternating up the stems, compound, with 5 leaflets, each 0.4-2 cm long, 2-10 mm wide, hairy, tips pointed or blunt, the lower 2 usually smaller and more or less cordate. Flowers 6-9.5 mm long, pea shaped, with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel, yellow to orange, in clusters of mostly 1-4 flowers. Flowers mainly Spring to Autumn.
Was Lotus suaveolens.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Lotus~subbiflorus (accessed 24 January, 2021)
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