Birdsfoot Trefoil, judging from its roughly 70 common names, has long been a familar flower of our countryside! Not surprisingly therefore it is a native perennial which is very common throughout Great Britain. Found on dry grasslands it can grow as high as about 40 cm, but this is unusual, and you are most likely to see it in its prostrate form, sometimes forming yellow mats on the ground. Of its many other names the most commonly used one is probably "Bacon and Eggs", due to its ability to produce orange flowers as well as intense yellow.

Flower: Little yellow (often also orange) "pea" flowers up to about 15 mm across in little clusters of 2 - 8 flowers
Leaves: Lanceolate to oval, in groups of five but looking like three (hence "Trefoil")
Habitat: Dry grassland - wherever the grass is fairly short, sand, gravel
Height to about 40 cm
Typically flowering: May - August