Anthyllis vulneraria
| Anthyllis vulneraria | |
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| 1885 illustration[1] | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Rosids |
| Order: | Fabales |
| Family: | Fabaceae |
| Genus: | Anthyllis |
| Species: | A. vulneraria |
| Binomial name | |
| Anthyllis vulneraria L. | |
Anthyllis vulneraria [2] (common kidneyvetch, kidney vetch,[3] woundwort) is a medicinal plant[4] native to Europe. The name vulneraria means "wound healer".[5]
Subspecies
This species includes numerous subspecies (which some authors elevate to the role of separate species). A very incomplete list is as follows:
- A. vulneraria subsp. abyssinica (Sagorski) Cullen
- A. vulneraria subsp. alpestris (Kit.) Asch. et Gr.
- A. vulneraria subsp. baldensis (Kerner) Becker
- A. vulneraria subsp. busambarensis (Lojac.) Pign.
- A. vulneraria subsp. carpatica (Pant.) Nyman
- A. vulneraria subsp. forondae (Sennen) Cullen
- A. vulneraria subsp. iberica (W.Becker) Jalas
- A. vulneraria subsp. maura (Beck) Lindb.
- A. vulneraria subsp. polyphylla (D.C.) Nyman
- A. vulneraria subsp. polyphylla (D.C.) Nyman x affinis Brittinger ex Kerner
- A. vulneraria subsp. praepropera (Kerner) Bornm.
- A. vulneraria subsp. praepropera (Kerner) Borm. x adriatica Beck
- A. vulneraria subsp. pulchella (Vis.) Bornm.
- A. vulneraria subsp. vulneraria
- A. vulneraria subsp. vulnerarioides (All.) Arcang.
- A. vulneraria subsp. vulnerarioides (All.) Arcang. x bonjeanii Beck
- A. vulneraria subsp. weldeniana (Rchb.) Cullen
- A. vulneraria subsp. weldeniana (Rchb.) Cullen x tricolor Vukot.
- A. vulneraria subsp. weldeniana (Rchb.) Cullen x versicolor Sagorski
- A. vulneraria subsp. valesiaca (Becker) Guyot
Description
Anthyllis vulneraria reaches 5–40 centimetres (2.0–15.7 in) of height. The stem is simple or more often branched. The leaves are imparipinnate, glabrous or with scattered hairs on the upper face and silky hairs on the underside. The flower heads are spherical in shape and 10–20 millimetres (0.39–0.79 in) long. The flower are yellow in almost all sub-species, with the typical irregular shape of the flowers of legumes. Flowering takes place between June and September. The fruit is a legume. The fruits ripening takes place from July to October.
Kidney vetch is the food plant of the small blue butterfly larvae and the leaf miner, Aproaerema anthyllidella.[6]
Gallery
 Flower of Anthyllis vulneraria |
 Flower of Anthyllis vulneraria |
 Flowers of Anthyllis vulneraria |
 Leaves of Anthyllis vulneraria |
Distribution and habitat
This plant is spontaneous in the entire Europe, from Iceland to the Mediterranean, in Asia Minor up to Iran, in North Africa and in Ethiopia. It is naturalized in North America. It prefers the dry grasslands and rocky environments with calcareous soil, up to 3000 m of altitude.
References
- ↑ illustration from Otto Wilhelm Thomé Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz 1885, Gera, Germany
- ↑ Anthyllis vulneraria at USDA PLANTS Database
- ↑ "BSBI List 2007" (xls). Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland. Archived from the original on 2015-02-25. Retrieved 2014-10-17.
- ↑ Anthyllis vulneraria at Plants For A Future
- ↑ Wolfgang Hensel, 350 Plantes médicinales (french edition: Delachaux et Niestlé SA, Paris, 2008, ISBN 978-2-603-01531-5; German edition 2007 Franckh-Kosmos Verlags-GmbH & Co, Stuttgart, Wolfgang Hensel, Welche Heilpflanze ist das?)
- ↑ Kimber, Ian. "843 Aproaerema anthyllidella". UKMoths. Retrieved 15 April 2014.
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