Anthyllis vulnerariaL.

common kidneyvetchkidney vetchkidney-vetchladies’ fingerswoundwort

WFO wfo-0000212115 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Anthyllis vulneraria, photographed by Andrea
fig. a Andrea, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-12 / obs. 205845031
Anthyllis vulneraria, photographed by Elias
fig. b Elias, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205194704
Anthyllis vulneraria, photographed by Thomas
fig. c Thomas, CC0 1.0 / obs. 204913612
Anthyllis vulneraria, photographed by Skjold Søndergaard
fig. d Skjold Søndergaard, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204880763
Anthyllis vulneraria, photographed by Rafael Medina
fig. e Rafael Medina, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205979863
Anthyllis vulneraria, photographed by Petr Harant
fig. f Petr Harant, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204196416
Anthyllis vulneraria, photographed by Yann Kemper
fig. g Yann Kemper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 204127564
Anthyllis vulneraria, photographed by Bee Together
fig. h Bee Together, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204136971

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Native range 52 botanical countries

Regions where Anthyllis vulneraria is native: Algeria, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, East Aegean Is., Iran, Lebanon-Syria, North Caucasus, Palestine, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Albania, Austria, Baleares, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Central European Russia, Corse, Czechia-Slovakia, Denmark, East European Russia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Kriti, Krym, Netherlands, North European Russia, Northwest European Russia, Norway, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sicilia, South European Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Türkiye-in-Europe, Ukraine AlgeriaEgyptEritreaEthiopiaLibyaMoroccoTunisiaEast Aegean Is.IranLebanon-SyriaNorth CaucasusPalestineTranscaucasusTürkiyeAlbaniaAustriaBaltic StatesBelarusBelgiumBulgariaCentral European RussiaCorseCzechia-SlovakiaDenmarkEast European RussiaFinlandFranceGermanyGreeceHungaryIcelandIrelandItalyKritiKrymNetherlandsNorth European RussiaNorthwest European RussiaNorwayNW. Balkan Pen.PolandPortugalRomaniaSiciliaSouth European RussiaSpainSwedenSwitzerlandTürkiye-in-EuropeUkraine Baleares
Native distribution of Anthyllis vulneraria, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Albania ALB EUROPE
Austria AUT
Baleares BAL
Baltic States BLT
Belarus BLR
Belgium BGM
Bulgaria BUL
Central European Russia RUC
Corse COR
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
Denmark DEN
East European Russia RUE
Finland FIN
France FRA
Germany GER
Great Britain GRB
Greece GRC
Hungary HUN
Iceland ICE
Ireland IRE
Italy ITA
Kriti KRI
Krym KRY
Netherlands NET
North European Russia RUN
Northwest European Russia RUW
Norway NOR
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Portugal POR
Romania ROM
Sicilia SIC
South European Russia RUS
Spain SPA
Sweden SWE
Switzerland SWI
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
Ukraine UKR
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Egypt EGY
Eritrea ERI
Ethiopia ETH
Libya LBY
Morocco MOR
Tunisia TUN
East Aegean Is. EAI ASIA-TEMPERATE
Iran IRN
Lebanon-Syria LBS
North Caucasus NCS
Palestine PAL
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR

Not drawn on the map: Great Britain. We hold no public-domain boundary for this region, so it is listed rather than guessed at.

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 3,287 in flower of 3,600 examined

Peak flowering in Apr. Each bar is the share of Anthyllis vulneraria observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 3,287 of 3,600 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 451 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Anthyllis abyssinica (Sagorski) W.Becker
  • Anthyllis adriatica Beck
  • Anthyllis affinis Brittinger ex W.D.J.Koch
  • Anthyllis affinis var. tirolensis Sagorski
  • Anthyllis ajmasiana (Pau) Rothm.
  • Anthyllis albana Wettst.
  • Anthyllis albana var. macedonica Degen & Dörfl.
  • Anthyllis albiflora (Guss.) Iamonico, Domina, Guarino & Del Guacchio
  • Anthyllis alpestris Hegetschw.
  • Anthyllis alpestris (Kit.) Kit.
  • Anthyllis alpestris Rchb.
  • Anthyllis alpestris f. pallidiflora (Rouy) Bolzon
  • Anthyllis alpestris subf. nana Bolzon
  • Anthyllis alpestris subsp. baldensis (A.Kern. ex Sagorski) W.Becker
  • Anthyllis alpestris subsp. vitellina W.Becker
  • Anthyllis alpestris var. oreigenes Sagorski
  • Anthyllis alpestris var. pyrenaica Rouy
  • Anthyllis alpicola Brügger
  • Anthyllis alpicola Brugger
  • Anthyllis alpicola subsp. cherleri Brügger
  • Anthyllis alpicola var. hegetschweileri Brügger
  • Anthyllis alpina G.Don
  • Anthyllis apennina F.Conti & Bartolucci
  • Anthyllis arenaria (Rupr.) Juz.

and 427 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.