horseshoe vetch
hippocrepis comosa latin

The species like to feed on horseshoe vetch, Hippocrepis comosa.

The researchers say horseshoe vetch is not the only legume that makes nitropropionic acid.

The main grass is red fescue, and herbs include horseshoe vetch and common rockrose.

Horseshoe Vetch, Hippocrepis comosa is a flowering plant.

Many plants are found on the crag, including horseshoe vetch near its northern limit, spindle tree and many ferns.

The larvae feed on Horseshoe Vetch.

Species present include horseshoe vetch, yellow-wort, autumn gentian and both bee and pyramidal orchids.

Other species found include Horseshoe Vetch, yellow-wort, Autumn Gentian, and common thyme.

The plant is horseshoe vetch, a legume that takes the fixed nitrogen produced by its bacteria and makes a toxic compound, nitropropionic acid.

Foodplant: Horseshoe Vetch.

Its larval (caterpillar) foodplant is Horseshoe Vetch (Hippocrepis comosa).

The chalk grassland hosts a rich suite of plants including Wild Liquorice and Horseshoe Vetch.

Other plants on the southern slopes include the Somerset Hair Grass, wild thyme, Horseshoe Vetch and birds-foot-trefoil.

At around the same time and later some Downs have carpets of yellow Horseshoe Vetch and blue Chalk Milkwort.

When Bacteria Kills Horseshoe vetch notwithstanding, bacteria play a crucial role in the nitrogen cycle and in many other processes that help sustain life.

The Adonis Blue is also found where its larval food plant, Horseshoe Vetch (Hippocrepis comosa) grows in favourable conditions.

The range of plants is wide and includes Bee Orchid, Horseshoe Vetch and Chalk Milkwort.

The caterpillars feed on Lotus corniculatus, white clover, Ononis species, Horseshoe Vetch and Medicago species.

The food plants are Horseshoe Vetch (Hippocrepis comosa) and Crown Vetch (Coronilla varia).

The hill is now a National Nature Reserve (NNR) with common plants including milkwort, salad burnet, horseshoe vetch, squinancywort, pyramidal orchid and wild thyme.

Described as one of Portland's prime nature habitats, within the area, both lichens and bryophytes are plentiful, and various notable plant species include horseshoe vetch, kidney vetch and autumn gentian.

The Breton forests, dunes, moorlands and marshes are home to several iconic plants, such as endemic cistus, aster and linaria varieties, the horseshoe vetch and the lotus maritimus.

The horseshoe vetch Hippocrepis comosa is locally plentiful and supports both the Chalkhill Blue Lysandra coridon and the Adonis Blue Lysandra bellargus butterflies.

On grasslands Bird's-foot Trefoil Lotus corniculatus, Common Rock-rose Helianthemum nummularium, Horseshoe Vetch Hippocrepis comosa and Wild Thyme Thymus serpyllum are used.

In addition there are numerous, rare species of flower such as varieties of Primula, Spring Snowflake, Horseshoe Vetch, Hart's-tongue Fern, Spleenwort, Lady's Slipper and Heath Spotted Orchid etc.

Horseshoe Vetch, Hippocrepis comosa is a flowering plant.

Its larval (caterpillar) foodplant is Horseshoe Vetch (Hippocrepis comosa).

Flora include inula, hippocrepis emerus, Bombycilaena erecta, wild orchid, hippocrepis comosa.

The Adonis Blue is also found where its larval food plant, Horseshoe Vetch (Hippocrepis comosa) grows in favourable conditions.

The food plants are Horseshoe Vetch (Hippocrepis comosa) and Crown Vetch (Coronilla varia).

On grasslands Bird's-foot Trefoil Lotus corniculatus, Common Rock-rose Helianthemum nummularium, Horseshoe Vetch Hippocrepis comosa and Wild Thyme Thymus serpyllum are used.

Several localised plant species such as Squinancywort Asperula cynanchica Chalk Eyebright Euphrasia pseudokerneri, Horseshoe Vetch Hippocrepis comosa, Autumn Gentian Gentianella amarella and Clustered Bellflower Campanula glomerata occur.

Other recorded foodplants include Lotus corniculatus, Ononis spinosa, Dorycnium pentaphyllum, Dorycnium germanicum, Dorycnium herbaceum, Dorycnium hirsutum, Medicago, Hippocrepis comosa, Lupinus polyphyllus, Tetragonolobus maritimus and Lathyrus pratensis.

The eggs are laid singly on the tender young leaves of Bird's-foot Trefoil Lotus corniculatus, the favoured foodplant (although Horseshoe Vetch Hippocrepis comosa and Greater Bird's-foot Trefoil Lotus pendunculatus are sometimes used).