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Acmispon wrangelianus

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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 long.
- Family
- Fabaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Acmispon wrangelianus
- Slug
- acmispon-wrangelianus
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Genus
- Acmispon
- Species
- wrangelianus
- Wikidata QID
- Q4674420
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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