Anthyllis vulneraria
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Anthyllis vulneraria,[1] the common kidneyvetch, kidney vetch[2] or woundwort[3] is a medicinal plant[4] native to Europe, northern Africa, and Western Asia.[5] The name vulneraria means "wound healer".[6]
Description
Anthyllis vulneraria reaches Script error: No such module "convert". in height. The stem is simple or more often branched. The leaves are imparipinnate, glabrous or with scattered hairs on the upper face and silky hairs on the underside. The flower heads are spherical in shape and Script error: No such module "convert". long. The petals are yellow in most sub-species, but red in A. vulneraria var. coccinea. Flowering takes place between June and September. The fruit is a legume. The fruits ripening takes place from July to October.
Kidney vetch is the food plant of the small blue butterfly larvae and the leaf miner, Aproaerema anthyllidella.[7]
Distribution and habitat
This plant is sporadic throughout Europe, from Iceland to the Mediterranean, in Asia Minor up to Iran, in North Africa and in Ethiopia. It is naturalized in North America. It prefers dry grasslands and rocky environments with calcareous soil, up to Template:Cvt in elevation.
Subspecies
This species includes numerous subspecies, with 47 accepted by Plants of the World Online.[5] Some authors elevate these to the role of separate species.
- A. vulneraria subsp. abyssinica (Sagorski) Cullen – Eritrea and Ethiopia
- A. vulneraria subsp. ajmasiana (Pau) Raynaud & SauvageScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". – Morocco
- A. vulneraria subsp. alpestris (Kit.) Asch. et Gr. – European mountains
- A. vulneraria subsp. argyrophylla (Rothm.) CullenScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". – southern Spain
- A. vulneraria subsp. arundana (Boiss. & Reut.) H.Lindb.Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". – southern Spain
- A. vulneraria subsp. baldensis (Sagorski) Pignatti ex Kerguélen – southwestern and southern Alps
- A. vulneraria subsp. balearica (Coss. ex Marès & Vigin.) O.Bolòs & VigoScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". – Balearic Islands
- A. vulneraria subsp. boissieri (Sagorski) Bornm.Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". – Crimean Peninsula, Caucasus, Turkey, and northern Iran
- A. vulneraria subsp. borealis (Rouy) JalasScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". – western Iceland
- A. vulneraria subsp. boscii KerguélenScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". – northwestern Spain and Pyrenees
- A. vulneraria subsp. bulgarica (Sagorski) CullenScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". – Balkan Peninsula
- A. vulneraria subsp. busambarensis (Lojac.) Pign. – Sicily
- A. vulneraria subsp. carpatica (Pant.) Nyman – western and central Europe
- A. vulneraria subsp. colorata (Juz.) Tzvelev (synonym: Anthyllis colorata Juz.)[8] – Baltic states, northwestern and central European Russia
- A. vulneraria subsp. corbierei (Salmon & Travis) CullenScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". – southwestern Great Britain, Channel Islands, northwestern France
- A. vulneraria subsp. danica LampinenScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". – Denmark
- A. vulneraria subsp. dertosensis (Rothm.) Font QuerScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". – Spain
- A. vulneraria subsp. fatmae Font QuerScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". – northern Morocco
- A. vulneraria subsp. forondae (Sennen) Cullen – northeastern Spain, Pyrenees, and southwestern Alps
- A. vulneraria subsp. fruticans Emb.Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". – Morocco
- A. vulneraria subsp. gandogeri (Sagorski) MaireScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". – Iberian Peninsula, Balearic Islands, and northern Morocco
- A. vulneraria subsp. guyotii (Chodat) GrenonScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". – western Alps
- A. vulneraria subsp. hispidissima (Sagorski) CullenScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". – north Macedonia, northeastern Greece, and Turkey
- A. vulneraria subsp. iberica (W.Becker) Jalas – coasts of Western Europe from Belgium to Portugal
- A. vulneraria subsp. iframensis CullenScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". – Morocco
- A. vulneraria var. langei JalasScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". – coasts of Western Europe from Denmark to France and the British Isles
- A. vulneraria subsp. lapponica (Hyl.) JalasScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". – British Isles, Scandinavia, Baltic States, Belarus, Ukraine, and northern and central Russia
- A. vulneraria subsp. maritima (Schweigg. ex K.G.Hagen) Corb.Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". – southern Baltic coast to northern and central Russia
- A. vulneraria subsp. matris-filiae Emb. & MaireScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". – southern and eastern Spain, northern Morocco
- A. vulneraria subsp. maura (Beck) Lindb. – North Africa, Iberian Peninsula, Italy and Sicily, Syria and Lebanon
- A. vulneraria subsp. microcephala (Willk.) BenedíScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". – Spain
- A. vulneraria subsp. multifolia (W.Becker) O.Bolòs & VigoScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". – Spain
- A. vulneraria subsp. nana (Ten.) TammaroScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". – Italy (central Apennines)
- A. vulneraria subsp. pinidicola CullenScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". – Greece, Crete, and former Yugoslavia
- A. vulneraria subsp. polyphylla (D.C.) Nyman – France, Italy, Denmark, Central Europe, northern Balkan Peninsula, European Russia, Caucasus, and Turkey
- A. vulneraria subsp. polyphylla (D.C.) Nyman × affinis Brittinger ex Kerner
- A. vulneraria subsp. pseudoarundana H.Lindb.Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". – Morocco and southern and eastern Spain
- A. vulneraria subsp. pulchella (Vis.) Bornm. – southeastern Europe, Crimean Peninsula, Caucasus, and Turkey
- A. vulneraria subsp. rubriflora {{small|(DC.) Arcang. (synonym A. vulneraria subsp. praepropera (Kerner) Bornm.) – France and the Balearic Islands through southern Europe to Israel
- A. vulneraria subsp. saharae (Sagorski) Jahand. & MaireScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". – Algeria and Morocco
- A. vulneraria subsp. subscaposa CullenScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". – Transcaucasus
- A. vulneraria subsp. valesiaca (Becker) Guyot – France, Italy, and Switzerland
- A. vulneraria subsp. variegata (Boiss. ex Beck) Bornm.Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". – Caucasus to southern Turkey
- A. vulneraria subsp. versicolor (Dalla Torre & Sarnth.) GutermannScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". – Austria, Italy, Switzerland, and former Yugoslavia
- A. vulneraria subsp. vitellina (Velen.) KuzmanovScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". – Bulgaria
- A. vulneraria subsp. vulneraria L. – western and northern Europe to northern and eastern European Russia
- A. vulneraria subsp. vulnerarioides (All.) Arcang. – southwestern Alps, Pyrenees, and Corsica
- A. vulneraria subsp. vulnerarioides (All.) Arcang. × bonjeanii Beck
- A. vulneraria subsp. weldeniana (Rchb.) Cullen – northeastern Italy and northwestern Balkan Peninsula
- A. vulneraria subsp. weldeniana (Rchb.) Cullen × tricolor Vukot.
- A. vulneraria subsp. weldeniana (Rchb.) Cullen × versicolor Sagorski
Gallery
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1885 illustration[9]
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Kidney vetch provides pollen and nectar for a wide range of insects, particularly bumblebees
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Inflorescences
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Leaves
References
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- ↑ Anthyllis vulneraria at USDA PLANTS Database
- ↑ Template:BSBI 2007
- ↑ Template:GRIN
- ↑ Anthyllis vulneraria at Plants For A Future
- ↑ a b Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Wolfgang Hensel, 350 Plantes médicinales (french edition: Delachaux et Niestlé SA, Paris, 2008, Template:ISBN; German edition 2007 Franckh-Kosmos Verlags-GmbH & Co, Stuttgart, Wolfgang Hensel, Welche Heilpflanze ist das?)
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- ↑ illustration from Otto Wilhelm Thomé Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz 1885, Gera, Germany
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