nitrogen fixing

Greater Bird’s-foot trefoil Lotus pendunculatus or Lotus uliginosus with calyx detail

Completed for Butterfly Conservation.  The plant shows flowers and seed pods.

Bush tea or Quickstick Gliricidia sepium showing plant and a detail of one flower

Bush tea or Quickstick Gliricidia sepium line drawing

Wood vetch showing branching tendrils, growth habit, and the darker-coloured banner petals.

Hares-foot clover Trifolium arvense with detail of one flower and calyx

Birds foot trefoil Lotus corniculatus with seed pod and individual flower and calyx

Garden lupin Lupinus regalis habit showing a red and yellow variety

Blue bonnet Lupin Lupinus polyphyllus sketchbook study page.  Includes information on  habit, cross section of flower, seed pods, and leaf venation.

Lupin Lupinus polyphyllus habit drawing showing palmate leaves and flower spikes

Crimson clover Trifolium incarnata showing crimosn flowers and trifoliate leaves

Garden pea Pisum sativa showing leaves, tendrils, peas in a pod, flowers and closed pods

Lesser trefoil Trifoilum dubium botanical illustration

Alfalfa flowers and plant with seedling, seed case, and seed

White clover Trifolium repens showing rooting nodes and pale chevrons on the leaves

Red clover Trifolium pratensis plant

Rye Secale cereale whole plant and seedhead

Clover root nodule diagram

Medicago lupulina Black medick with yellow flowers and black seed clusters along with trifoliate leaves with acuminate points

Common Alder Alnus glutinosa tree, pen and ink study of a tree in full leaf

Common Alder Alnus glutinosa roots showing their distinctive growth habit

Common Alder Alnus glutinosa Cones and catkins pencil study with outline of the leaf behind

Pollarded Alder Alnusglutinosa tree in leaf

Drawing of a broom plant with colour details of individual flowers, leaves, and a seed pod