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Horseshoe Vetch

 
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The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: European woody perennial with yellow umbellate flowers followed by flattened pods that separate into horseshoe-shaped joints
  Synonym: Hippocrepis comosa

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Horseshoe Vetch

Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Faboideae
Genus: Hippocrepis
Species: H. comosa
Binomial name
Hippocrepis comosa
L.

Horseshoe Vetch [1](Hippocrepis comosa) is a flowering plant. It is the sole food of the butterfly species Polyommatus coridon, or the Chalkhill Blue.[1]

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References

  1. ^ Elizabeth Kolbert. Field Notes from a Catastrophe.


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