Birdsfoot Trefoil

Bird's-foot Trefoil (Lotus corniculatus), a low-growing perennial leguminous plant, forming a useful ingredient in pasture vegetation. It has leaves of five leaflets, two of which are stipular, and an umbellate inflorescence of from five to ten yellow or orange flowers, followed by straight pods, the resemblance of which to birds' claws gives the plant its popular name.