Lotus corniculatus L.

The New York Botanical Garden
Plants of U.S.A.
Fabaceae Lotus comiculatus L.
det. M. Nee, 2011
Iowa, Dubuque Co., along small creek and Olde Davenport
Road Just E of Hwy. 61/151, 6.5 km SSW of Julien
Dubuque bridge over the Mississippi River in Dubuque.
42°26’09”N, 90°40’46”W. alt. 215 m.
Recent construction and fields in bottom of broad valley
with rich soil, with scattered trees along the stream. Typical
regional array of introduced Eurasian species in rich,
disturbed soil, and crushed limestone gravel, Medicago
sativus, Lotus comiculatus, Carduus nutans, Cirsium
arvense, Vicia villosa, Pastinaca sativa, Agropyron repens.
Mostly at edge of roadside gravel. Flower bright yellow.
Coll.: M. Nee 58003	25 June 2011
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