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New Mexico Bird's Foot Trefoil

Acmispon oroboides

Also called New Mexico Trefoil

New Mexico Bird's Foot Trefoil
Photo: Evelyn Lazzaretti, CC0
Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Perennial
Native range
Utah to Mexico
Climate
subtropical

About

Acmispon oroboides, the New Mexico bird's-foot trefoil, is a species of flowering plant native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico.

Where it grows

Acmispon oroboides is found in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. It grows between 3,500 ft and 5,000 ft in dry desert soils and around desert shrub to pinyon-juniper communities.

Other Acmispon plants

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

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acmispon oroboides 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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