Trigonella coerulescens
This tiny Fenugreek is almost certainly the one referred to in Ann. Bot. Finnici 46:62-64 in which the author R. Suleyman Gokturk describes a new sub species of this plant from the beaches of Anatolia in Turkey where this one was found. In which case this is Trigonella coerulescens ssp kemerensis and is therefore most probably a Turkish endemic. The distribution of this plant is not at all wide as it is only known from a few places in Greece, a very few in Turkey and otherwise scarcely dotted around in the hinterland south of the Black sea and a few places in the in the southern Caucasus.
Trigonella coerulescens can be confused with the similar sounding Trigonella caerulea (Blue Fenugreek) which has smaller flowers, also blue, which is known from France Germany and even occasionally from Britain.
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Beach en route to Olympos Mountain Lodge, Turkey 4th April 2015
Added on August 13th 2018