Ononis arvensis
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Fabales |
| Family: | Fabaceae |
| Subfamily: | Faboideae |
| Genus: | Ononis |
| Species: | O. arvensis
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| Ononis arvensis | |
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Ononis arvensis, the field restharrow, is a widespread species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae, native to Eurasia from central Europe through to western Siberia and the western Himalayas.[1] It is a perennial hemicryptophyte usually 50–100 cm (20–39 in) tall, typically found in meadows, but also in old fields and dry grasslands.[2]
It is closely related to Ononis spinosa and Ononis repens, being treated (together with O. repens) by some authors as a subspecies of O. spinosa.[3] It shares pink flower colour with these two; from O. spinosa it differs in having its flowers in pairs at each node rather than singly, and (like O. repens) in lacking stiff spines; the wing petal size is small as in O. spinosa, rather than equalling the keel petal as in O. repens.[4] It has a more easterly distribution than either O. spinosa or O. repens, not being found west of southern Scandinavia and Germany, and extending further into central Asia.[4][1]
References
- ^ a b c "Ononis arvensis L." Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 7 September 2022.
- ^ Dénes, Tünde; Bartha, Sámuel Gergely; Kerényi, Mónika; Varga, Erzsébet; Balázs, Viktória Lilla; Csepregi, Rita; Papp, Nóra (2017). "Histological and antimicrobial study of Ononis arvensis L." (PDF). Acta Biologica Hungarica. 68 (3): 321–333. doi:10.1556/018.68.2017.3.9. PMID 28901804.
- ^ Turini, Florian G.; Bräuchler, Christian; Heubl, Günther (2010). "Phylogenetic relationships and evolution of morphological characters in Ononis L. (Fabaceae)". Taxon. 59 (4): 1077–1090. doi:10.1002/tax.594008. ISSN 0040-0262. Retrieved 2025-08-23.
- ^ a b Blamey, Marjorie; Grey-Wilson, Christopher (1989). The Illustrated Flora of Britain and Northern Europe. London: Hodder & Stoughton. p. 212. ISBN 0-340-40170-2.