The Pea Family
Legumes are essential to our local ecology, often acting as host plants for our most iconic butterflies.
Red Clover (Trifolium pratense)
Recorded at Lancing Ring and Malthouse Meadow. A quintessential plant of the British countryside.
Flowering: May–September
Horseshoe Vetch (Hippocrepis comosa)
Crucially important as a larval foodplant for the Chalkhill Blue and Adonis Blue butterflies.
Flowering: April–July
Bird's-foot Trefoil (Lotus corniculatus)
A primary foodplant for the Common Blue butterfly.
Flowering: May–August