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Foothill Deervetch

Acmispon brachycarpus

Foothill Deervetch
Photo: joedecruyenaere, CC BY-SA 2.0
Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Annual
Native range
W. & SC. U.S.A. to NW. Mexico
Climate
temperate

About

Acmispon brachycarpus (formerly Lotus humistratus) is a species of legume known by the common name foothill deervetch. It is native to western North America from Idaho to Texas to northern Mexico, where it is known from many types of habitat. It is an annual herb spreading upright or taking a clumpy or matted form. It is lined with leaves each usually made up of four hairy, somewhat fleshy leaflets each up to about 1 cm long. Solitary yellow, pea-like flowers appear in the leaf axils. The fruit is a legume pod variable in size and shape.

Other Acmispon plants

American Bird's Foot Trefoil · Silver Bird's Foot Trefoil · Canyon Bird's Foot Trefoil · Bentham's Broom · Pine Deer Vetch · Island Broom · Riverbar Bird's Foot Trefoil · Acmispon distichus · California Broom · Chaparral Bird's Foot Trefoil · Pygmy Lotus · Rush Broom

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acmispon brachycarpus by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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