Greater bird's-foot trefoil
Lotus pedunculatus
- Blütezeit
- June–August
- Nektar
- mittel
- Pollen
- mittel
Greater bird's-foot trefoil flowers from June to August in wet meadows, by ditches and in carr woodland. It grows considerably taller than common bird's-foot trefoil and has hollow stems. Its yellow flowers stand in umbels of eight to twelve. On damp sites it is a good and long-lasting forage in high summer. British measurements give around 35 micrograms of sugar per flower per day, around 47,030 pollen grains per flower and a nectar yield of around 8 kilograms of sugar per hectare per year.
Quellen (6)
- Lotus pedunculatus, Wikipedia
- Lotus pedunculatus, Euro+Med PlantBase über PESI
- Lotus pedunculatus, GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
- Filipiak, Walczyńska, Denisow, Petanidou, Ziółkowska (2022): Phenology and production of pollen, nectar and sugar in 1612 plant species from various environments
- Baude, Kunin, Memmott (2015): Nectar sugar values of common British plant species [AgriLand]
- Baude, Kunin, Davies, Wright, Memmott (2025): Pollen production values of common British plant species