Horseshoe Vetch

Horseshoe Vetch

Taxobox
name = "Horseshoe Vetch"



image_width = 200px
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Magnoliopsida
ordo = Fabales
familia = Fabaceae
subfamilia = Faboideae
genus = "Hippocrepis"
species = "H. comosa"
binomial = "Hippocrepis comosa"
binomial_authority = L.

Horseshoe Vetch [http://www.glaucus.org.uk/Hippocrepis_comosa.html] ("Hippocrepis comosa") is a flowering plant. It is the sole food of the butterfly species "Polyommatus coridon", or the Chalkhill Blue. [Elizabeth Kolbert. Field Notes from a Catastrophe.]

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