Acmispon grandiflorus |
Acmispon grandiflorus var. macranthus |
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chaparral bird's-foot trefoil, large leaf lotus, large-flower lotus |
mountain chaparral lotus |
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Habit | Herbs, perennial, cespitose, sometimes robust, grayish or green, 1–4(–15) dm, not fleshy, ± densely puberulent or strigillose; rhizomatous, woody based. | Herbs strigillose or puberulent, green. | ||||
Stems | 1–5+, decumbent to erect, branched, herbaceous, often striate, leafy. |
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Leaves | irregularly pinnate; stipules glandlike, conic; petiolate or sessile; rachis 2–3.5(–5.5) mm, not flattened; leaflets 7–9(–12), blades usually elliptic to obovate, sometimes ovate, apex acute to obtuse, surfaces sparsely to densely puberulent or villosulous to strigillose. |
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Inflorescences | 3–9(–11)-flowered. |
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Peduncles | ascending or spreading, 10–80 mm, longer than leaves; bract 1(–3)-foliolate, distal. |
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Flowers | 12–25 mm; calyx (4.5–)5.5–10 mm, tube villosulous, lobes subulate; corolla greenish white, white or yellow, fading to rose or reddish, claws shorter than calyx tube, banner ascending 45–90°, wings longer than banner and keel; style nearly straight or basally curved, glabrous. |
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Legumes | persistent, exserted, brown, linear-oblong, straight, turgid, sometimes slightly constricted, incompletely septate, 25–42(–70) × 2–3 mm, leathery, apex short hook-beaked, dehiscent, smooth, margins smooth, thickened, glabrate. |
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Ovules | ca. 45. |
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Seeds | 5–9, olive to reddish brown, mottled, broadly ovoid, smooth. |
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Acmispon grandiflorus |
Acmispon grandiflorus var. macranthus |
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Phenology | Flowering spring. | |||||
Habitat | Ponderosa pine, oak-pine, or semi-open mixed conifer forests, chaparral, clayey, sandy, gravelly, or cobbly volcanic soils, wet or moist, gravelly stream bottoms and banks, gravelly roadsides. | |||||
Elevation | 300–1800 m. (1000–5900 ft.) | |||||
Distribution | nw Mexico; California
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CA |
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Discussion | Varieties 2 (2 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Variety macranthus is known from the northern and central Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range. Lotus macranthus (Greene) Greene 1890 (not Lowe 1838) is an illegitimate name that pertains here. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 11. | FNA vol. 11. | ||||
Parent taxa | Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Acmispon | Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Acmispon > Acmispon grandiflorus | ||||
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Synonyms | Hosackia grandiflora, Anisolotus grandiflorus, Lotus grandiflorus, Ottleya grandiflora | Hosackia macrantha, Anisolotus macranthus, Lotus grandiflorus var. macranthus | ||||
Name authority | (Bentham) Brouillet: J. Bot. Res. Inst. Texas 2: 390. (2008) | (Greene) Brouillet: J. Bot. Res. Inst. Texas 2: 390. (2008) | ||||
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