Anthyllis vulneraria, SE: Getväppling, DE: Wundklee,
NL: Wondklaver, UK: Kidney vetch

Scientific name:		Anthyllis vulneraria L.
Synonym name:		Anthyllis alpestris Hegetschweiler-Bodmer, Anthyllis dillenii Schult. ex Steud., Anthyllis linnaei (Sagorski) Juz., Anthyllis vulneraria subsp. corbierei (C.E.Salmon & Travis) Cullen
Swedish name:		Getväppling
German name:		Echter Wundklee, Gemeiner Wundklee, Gewöhnlicher Wundklee
Nederlandse naam:		Wondklaver
English name:		Common kidneyvetch, Kidney vetch
Plant Family:		Fabaceae / Leguminosae, Bean family, Ärtväxter

Life form:		Perennial, hemicryptophyte
Stems:		Height 10–40 cm, creeping–erect
Leaves:		Alternate,broadly oblong or ovate, imparipinnate, glabrous or with scattered hairs on the upper face and silky hairs on the underside
Flowers:		Spherical flower heads, hermaphrodite, calyx with 5 short, unequal lobes; corolla, yellow to orange, rarely red
Flowering Period:		June, July, August
Fruits:		1-seeded legume about 3mm, enclosed in the calyx
Habitat:		dry calcareous soils, such as roadsides, in yards, limestone and mountain slopes

Derivation of the botanical name: Anthyllis, anthos blossom, ioulos beard, down, from the silky bristles of the calyx; ancient plant name used by Dioscorides. vulneraria, Latin vulnus wound; wounded, damaged; was supposed to be a cure for wounds. alpestris, of the lower mountains, growing in the mountains. dillenii, named for Johann Jacob Dillen (Latinized to Dillenius), 18th century German botanist and physician. linnaei, named for Carolus Linnaeus (1707 - 1778), the father of modern taxonomy. The standard author abbreviation L. is used to indicate Carl Linnaeus (1707 – 1778), a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, the father of modern taxonomy. The standard author abbreviation Hegetschweiler is used to indicate Johannes Hegetschweiler (1789 - 1839), a Swiss botanist and councillor, killed in the Züriputsch of 6 September 1839 by the last shot fired as he delivered the city counsil's surrender. The standard author abbreviation Bodmer is used to indicate Richard E. Bodmer (born 1960), an English wildlife biologist; reader in Conservation Ecology The standard author abbreviation Schult. is used to indicate Carl Linnaeus (1707 – 1778), a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, the father of modern taxonomy. The standard author abbreviation Steud. is used to indicate Ernst Gottlieb von Steudel (1783 – 1856), a German physician and an authority on grasses. The standard author abbreviation Sagorski is used to indicate Ernst Sagorski (1847 - 1929), a German teacher in Pforta (Schulpforta near Naumburg on the Saale River in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt), and botanist (flora, in particular revision of critical genera such as Rosa, Anthyllis, Mentha). The standard author abbreviation Juz. is used to indicate Sergei Vasilievich Juzepczuk (1893 - 1959), a Russian plant collector The standard author abbreviation C.E.Salmon is used to indicate Charles Edgar Salmon (1872 - 1930), an English architect prepared the second County Flora for publication, but was not published until 1931, a year after his death. The standard author abbreviation Travis is used to indicate William Gladstone Travis (1877 - 1958),a British botanist and lichenologist. The standard author abbreviation Cullen is used to indicate James Cullen (1976), Anthyllis vulneraria are pollinated by Bees, lepidoptera. If bees profit from exact colour discrimination, mean max. sugar crop or reward rate should be higher in the groups of flower colours with chromatic distances of less than 2.3. If bees profit from colour generalisation, mean max. sugar crop or reward rate should be higher in the groups of flower colours with chromatic distances of up to 3.5 and up to 5. Anthyllis vulneraria (yellow), had a higher max. sugar crop. Pedanius Dioscorides (circa 40 — 90 CE) mentioned in "The Greek Herbal of Dioscorides" Anthyllis. Anthyllis [but some call it Anthyllon, some Anthemis, some Eranthemis, some Leucanthemon, some Soranthis, some Flos campestris, ye Romans Solaster] is twofold, for one hath leaves like unto Lens, & a little branches ye heighth of a span, but upright, & ye leaves soft, but ye root slender & little. It grows in sandy & sunny places, somewhat salt to ye taster. But ye other kind, is like in ye leaves & small branches to Chamepitys but they are rougher & shorter & sharper. The flower is of a purple colour, smelling extremly strong, ye root as it were of Cichorie. It is of force mightily to help ye dysureticall & nephriticall, being drank ye quantity of 4 dragms. But being beaten small, & given as a Pessum with Rosaceum & milk, they do mollify ye inflammations which are in ye matrix. They do also heal wounds, but that which is like Chamepitys amongst other things, doth heal also ye Epilepticall being drank with Oxymel.