bird's-foot trefoil

Japanese: bird's-foot trefoil（英語表記）birdsfoottrefoil

...A perennial plant of the legume family with yellow to golden butterfly-shaped flowers that stands out on railroad tracks, beaches, fields, and roadsides. The Japanese name was thought to come from the fact that it grew in abundance in the capital (Kyoto), but it is also said to have come from the Chinese name for the basic variety, L. corniculatus L. (English name: bird's-foot trefoil), which has a hundred roots, "myakkongusa" (vein root plant). The stems creep along the ground or rise diagonally. ...

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Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…黄色から黄金色の蝶形花をつけるマメ科の多年草で，線路，海岸，野原，道端などで目立つ。和名は都(京都)に多く生えていたためとされていたが，基本変種セイヨウミヤコグサL.corniculatus L.(英名bird’s‐foot trefoil)の漢名百脈根のうちミャッコングサ(脈根草)から由来したともいわれる。茎は地をはうか，または斜めに立ち上がる。…

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