Photographs: County Cork Yellow flowers, 5-12 per flower-head.
Flower-buds sometimes streaked red. Elongated seed-pods.
Leaflets blunt, broadly oval, 3 leaflets to each leaf. Hollow
stems. Erect, sprawling plant, usually hairy, but can be
variable. Height to 60cm. Common in damp ground, meadows,
marshes, wet roadsides. Related: Hairy Birds-foot-trefoil, L.
subbiflorus. 2-4 flowers on each stalk. Low, spreading. Very
hairy stems, leaves. Rare, SW Ireland. Above: pale-yellow form
of Greater Birds-foot-trefoil. Ballingeary, County Cork. August
2008.