Lotus corniculatus   Common Bird's-foot-trefoil or Bacon & Egg Plant

 

 

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An essential food plant for the common blue butterfly, you find this in and near dune systems by the sea as well as inland. I took this one during the Foot and Mouth epidemic when most country places were out of bounds. Here it is growing with Silene uniflora (Sea Campion) and Eryngium maritimum (Sea Holly) on the sea shore - below the winter tide line too. There are more than 70 English names for this plant!

Near Abermenai point, Anglesey 22nd May 2001

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Modified with larger photo 13th September, amended January 28th 2005