Bird's-foot Lotus; Birdfoot Deervetch; "Bird's-foot Trefoil"
Lotus corniculatus
Fabaceae

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Lotus - c.1540, from lotos, a name used
for several plants before it came to mean
Egyptian white lotus (Nymphaea lotus),
a flowering plant of the family Nymphaeaceae.

[Taxonomists now recognize the genus as Acmispon]

corniculatus - small horns

The common names "Bird's-foot Trefoil" and "Birdfoot Deervetch"
unfortunately are also used with other lotus species.

Pastureland along the entrance road off of Hwy 178 to the Kern River Preserve, Weldon