A Cotswold Year - Charting the seasons in the South Cotswolds


Thursday 23 June 2011

Bird's Foot Trefoil

Bird's Foot Trefoil thrives in dry conditions and limestone pastures and is now in flower.
It provides food for the larvae of the Common Blue Butterfly and the Burnet Moth.
The children's name for it is Eggs and Bacon presumably from its colour.

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