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Hosackia pinnata
Also called Bog Bird's Foot Trefoil, Pinnate Leaved Lotus, Pinnate Lotus
Hosackia pinnata is a hairless perennial wildflower of western North America that grows in wet bogs and spring meadows. It is best grown in consistently moist soil in a sunny, open spot, typically in a native or wetland garden.
Hosackia pinnata, synonym Lotus pinnatus, is a species of legume native to western North America from British Columbia to California. It is known by the common names meadow bird's-foot trefoil and bog bird's-foot trefoil. Its distribution extends into British Columbia in just a few rare occurrences near Nanaimo. It grows in moist to wet habitat, such as bogs and spring meadows. It is a hairless perennial herb lined with leaves each made up of green oval leaflets each 1 to 2.5 centimeters in length. The inflorescence is an array of up to 10 pealike flowers between 1 and 2 centimeters long. Each flower has a bright yellow banner, or upper petal, and white lower petals. The fruit is a slender, elongated legume pod up to 5 centimeters long but just a few millimeters wide.
Big Deervetch · Seaside Bird's Foot Trefoil · Hosackia hintoniorum · Woolly Bird's Foot Trefoil · Streambank Bird's Foot Trefoil · Hosackia repens · Rosy Bird's Foot Trefoil · Balsam Bird's Foot Trefoil · Yolla Bolly Bird's Foot Trefoil · Bird's Foot Trefoil
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Hosackia pinnata 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.
