Re: Harvesting roadside plants
- To: perennials@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: Harvesting roadside plants
- From: C* P* L*
- Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 19:52:33 -0500 (CDT)
> My guess is you are looking at the Birdfoot Trefoil along side the roads
> now. European import found along roadsides and pastures. I have seen it in
> catalogs on occasion. Another similar plant that is in bloom around the same
> time is the Pencil Flower or Stylosanthes biflora. This one is usually found
> in dry woodlands.
Good call, Gene! For those of you thinking of "acquiring" birdsfoot
trefoil, think twice if you have children or pets might eat the flowers
or leaves: Lotus corniculatus plant parts contain cyanide.
Read
A. Bazin, S. Blaise, and D. Cartier: Polymorphism study of two
defense mechanisms in French populations of Lotus corniculatus L.:
Cyanide and condensed tannins.
Armstrong, H. E.; Armstrong, E. F.; Horton, E. (1912) Herbage studies.
I. Lotus corniculatus, a cyanophoric plant. Proceed Royal Soc London B
84B:471-484
Blaim, H. (1975) [The variations in the content of cyanogenic glucosides
in ontogenesis of birdsfoot trefoil (Lotus corniculatus L.).] Pamietnik
Pulawski 62:131-139
for more information.
Chris
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