bentham’s broom
Acmispon cytisoides
Member of
deervetch (genus Acmispon)
small yellow peas
legume family (family Fabaceae)
dicots (class Magnoliopsida)
flowering plants (subphylum Angiospermae)
- perennial herb; mat-forming or low-ascending, not woody, 10–80 cm
- 3–5 leaflets, 5–12 mm, glabrous or finely strigose
- calyx lobes narrow, some or all curved outward or hooked
- corolla 8–10 mm, generally white to ± pink (to brick-red when dry, wings cream), often dark-striate, in clusters of 3–10
- Butano, Mt. Montara vicinity
Chris’s observations: none
Not all sites include this taxon:
Bay Area species:
iNaturalist
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Calflora
