Settle Wildflowers Day 70: Yellow 18: 1. Greater Bird's-foot-trefoil 2. Yellow Meadow-vetchling, and 3. Lady's Bedstraw - in verges and meadows

Here are two yellow flowers of the pea family, (both a bit similar to Bird's-foot Trefoil) - and both still flowering:

And a yellow flower of the Bedstraw family (lower down): Lady's Bedstraw

 Yellow Meadow-vetchling and Greater Bird's-foot-trefoil

I found them in Lord's Pasture last week and on the road verge Just beyond the layby at Bucker Brow on the way down to the by-pass last month. 

They are plants that prefer low nutrient situations

This is Bird's-foot-trefoil which I recorded back in 30 May.  (There is lots of that still out now too)  Its leaves are thick so you cannot see the veins through them

1.  Greater Bird'sfoot Trefoil Lotus pedunculatus 

prefers damper grassland.

Bird's-foot trefoil and Greater Bird's-foot Trefoil  both  look as though they have five leaflets - or three leaflets and two equally big stipules- but these two stipules are actually leaflets

This is Greater Bird's-foot Trefoil

 Bird's-foot trefoil  has solid stem, 

Greater Bird's-foot trefoil has a hollow stem.

   Pictures of Greater Bird's-foot-trefoil

Its "Stipules" are wide at the base. They usually have a few sparse hairs sticking out round the edge. The texture of the leaf is thinner and more transparent than the thick leaves of  Bird's-foot Trefoil.

2. Yellow Meadow Vetchling Lathyrus pratensis

Yellow Meadow Vetchling is very distinctive. It has two leaflets and a tendril at the end of the leaf.

3. Lady's Bedstraw  Galium verum 

Lady's Bedstraw - Lord's Pasture, Settle - 12 Aug 2020
Also see the leaves of Tormentil (yellow flowers), Devil's-bit Scabious, Knapweed Glaucous Sedge, Salad Burnet, 

Lady's Bedstraw - 14 - July 2009 - Upper Wharfedale

Solder Beetle Rhagonycha fulva on Lady's Bedstraw, Crummackdale

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