Bird’s foot trefoil

Look out for bird’s foot trefoils with clusters of bright yellow pea like flowers, tinged with red or orange with irregular petals. They are positive indicator plants on the ACRES grassland and peatland scorecard, meaning that fields score higher and farmers get more money where present. Bird’s foot trefoil likes quite dry habitats. It has solid stems and three to six flowers n a cluster. Greater bird’s foot trefoil likes damper habitats. It has hollow stems and five to ten flowers in a cluster. As foodplant for dingy skipper and common blue butterflies and very important for bees, bird’s foot trefoil nó crobh éin corraigh is part of native Irish biodiversity.