| No | 49 |
| Common Name: | Kidney Vetch |
| Scientific Name: | Anthyllis vulneraria |
| Irish Name: | Méara Muire |
| Family: | Fabaceae |
| Habitat: | Found on free draining calcareous soils on chalk and limestone grasslands, rocky outcrops and near the sea on shingle and sand dunes |
| Uses: | Principal food plants of the larvae of the Small Blue Butterfly. Used in traditional medicine for the treatment of wounds. The species name Vulneraria means wound in Latin. |
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