Anthyllis (Yazvennik)

Family Fabaceae. Description: a genus of herbaceous plants and subshrubs. About 50 species are known, distributed in Europe, Western Asia and North America.

Grow on dry meadows, forest edges, in pine forests. Flower from June to August. Used as forage, medicinal (as an astringent, an early wound‑healing remedy), and dye plants. Honey plants. Biennial and perennial plants 10–60 cm tall with erect or ascending hairy stems. Leaves odd-pinnate, densely hairy beneath. Flowers in capitate inflorescences. Fruit - a legume.