Anthyllis lotoides

Anthyllis lotoides is a low, spreading perennial herb of the Fabaceae native to the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa, where it grows on sandy soils, dune slacks, and open coastal scrub. Plants form prostrate to ascending tufts 10–30 cm across from a slender woody rootstock, with several decumbent stems clothed in soft silky-villous hairs. Leaves are alternate, imparipinnate with 5–9 leaflets; leaflets are narrowly elliptic to oblong, 5–15 mm long, the terminal one larger than the laterals, silky on both surfaces. Stipules are small and adnate to the petiole base. Inflorescences are dense, terminal, head-like umbels 1.5–3 cm across subtended by digitately divided leafy bracts; flowers are papilionaceous, 8–12 mm long, with a calyx tube that is inflated and densely silky-tomentose, and a yellow corolla. Pods are small, 1- to 2-seeded, ovoid, and enclosed within the persistent calyx. Flowering occurs March–June.