genus

Bird's-foots and Serradellas

Ornithopus

Field notes

Ornithopus, the bird's-foot, is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It includes six species and one natural hybrid native to Europe, Macaronesia, the eastern Mediterranean, northwest Africa, and Iran, and from southern Brazil to northeastern Argentina in South America.

Ornithopus × bardiei Jeanj.

Ornithopus compressus L. — yellow serradella

Ornithopus micranthus (Benth.) Arechav.

Ornithopus perpusillus L. — little white bird's foot

Ornithopus pinnatus (Mill.) Druce — orange bird's foot

Ornithopus sativus Brot. — serradella, common bird's foot

Ornithopus uncinatus Maire & Sam.

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Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Key traits

From USDA PLANTS.