Scientific name: | Coronilla rostrata Boiss. & Sprun. | |
Synonym name: | Coronilla parviflora Willd. | |
Synonym name: | Securigera parviflora (Desv.) Lassen | |
Common name: | Yellow Crown-vetch | |
Hebrew name: | כתרון זעיר-פרח | |
Plant Family: | Papilionaceae, פרפרניים |
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Life form: | Annual | |
Stems: | 20-50 in height, spread out, with long thin stems, hairy or not | |
Leaves: | Alternate, compound, pinnate | |
Flowers: | Yellow | |
Fruits / pods: | Loment (a pod, breaking up when mature into one-seeded joints) | |
Flowering Period: | March, April | |
Habitat: | Batha, Phrygana | |
Distribution: | Mediterranean Woodlands and Shrublands, Montane vegetation of Mt. Hermon | |
Chorotype: | Mediterranean | |
Summer shedding: | Ephemeral |
Derivation of the botanical name: Coronilla, corona, κορωνη, wreath, garland, crown;in reference to the umbels of these shrubs and herbs. rostrata, beaked, hooked, curved at the end, beaked. parviflora, parvus, small, little, insignificant; florus, floreo, to bloom, to flower; small flowered.
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