The open plant encyclopedia
Snap a photo or search by any name to see how to care for it, where it comes from, whether it's safe, and a 3D model you can turn.
The plants people record most in your country, and ones that grow there wild.
Filter by what you want to do, shape, origin, country, care and safety.
Acmispon wrangelianus
Also called Chile Lotus, Chile Trefoil
Acmispon wrangelianus is a small hairy annual legume from western North America, often found in disturbed ground and grown as a wildflower or garden curiosity. It is easy from seed in sunny, well-drained spots, and it does best when left to self-sow.
Acmispon wrangelianus is a species of legume native to California and Oregon in the southwestern United States. It is known by the common names Chilean bird's-foot trefoil and Chile lotus. Despite its common name, it is not from Chile. It can be found in many types of habitat, including disturbed areas. This is a hairy, prostrate annual herb. Its slender branches are lined with leaves each made of generally four small leaflets. The inflorescence is composed of a solitary yellow pealike flower around a centimeter wide. The fruit is a legume pod one to two centimeters (0.39 to 0.79 in) long.
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 wrangelianus by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
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.
