Biology:Acmispon brachycarpus

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Short description: Species of legume

Acmispon brachycarpus
Lotushumistratus.jpg
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Faboideae
Genus: Acmispon
Species:
A. brachycarpus
Binomial name
Acmispon brachycarpus
(Benth.) D.D.Sokoloff
Synonyms[1][2]
  • Hosackia trisperma Anisolotus brachycarpus
  • (Benth.) Rydb. (Greene) Wooton & Standl.
  • (Greene) Brand Lotus humistratus
  • Hosackia brachycarpa Greene
  • Anisolotus trispermus Benth.
  • Greene Lotus trispermus

Acmispon brachycarpus (formerly Lotus humistratus[3]) is a species of legume known by the common name foothill deervetch. It is native to western North America from Idaho to Texas to northern Mexico, where it is known from many types of habitat. It is an annual herb spreading upright or taking a clumpy or matted form. It is lined with leaves each usually made up of four hairy, somewhat fleshy leaflets each up to about 1 cm long. Solitary yellow, pea-like flowers appear in the leaf axils. The fruit is a legume pod variable in size and shape.

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