Family: Pea family
Season: spring-fall

Last Update: 13Jun99

(28-Jun-96; FLT near Dryden Lake)

(Jun-97; roadside)

(June-99; roadside in Caroline; flowers)

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Birds-Foot Trefoil

A very common roadside flower growing in fields and roadsides. Once introduced as farm crop by Cornell Ag-folk - very common throughout area. Yellow flowers in 3-6 parts, leaves in 3 parts. Erect or prostrate. Pods suggest a bird's foot.