foothill deervetch

Acmispon brachycarpus

Member of deervetch (genus Acmispon)
small yellow peas
legume family (family Fabaceae)
dicots (class Magnoliopsida)
yellow in flowering plants

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• mat-forming to ascending, 5–40 cm
• generally 4 leaflets, palmate or nearly so, 4–12 mm, elliptic to obovate
• 1 flower 1 per leaf axil
• ± no peduncle and no bracts, so flower is sessile above a normal set of leaflets
• calyx hairy
• calyx lobes 1–2 × tube
• corolla 5–9 mm, yellow, reddening in age, wings ± = keel
• scattered

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Chris’s observations: 1 (research grade)

Locations:

• Russian Ridge OSP

Months:

• Apr.: 1

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Not all sites include this taxon:

• Acmispon brachycarpus → iNaturalist – Calflora – CalPhotos – Jepson eFlora
• not yet listed → FNA

Bay Area species: iNaturalist – Calflora