Coronilla minima

Scientific Name: Coronilla minima (Fabaceae).


English Name: (Legume family).


French Name: Coronille naine (='dwarf little crown').

5 Key Characters:

• low growing (usually 10 - 20 cm high).
• leaves in 2 - 4 pairs.
• 4 - 12 small yellow flowers (5 - 7 mm) in a ring at the top of a long stem.
• straight seedpods 10 - 45 mm long.
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Lookalikes: Horseshoe Vetch Hippocrepis comosum, which is larger and much more abundant and widespread.


Habitat: Calcareous grasslands and hillsides. Dry sunny impoverished calcareous soils.


Flowering Period: March-April-May-June-July.

Status: Rare.


Photographed by Loire Valley Nature: