Acmispon dendroideus

Island broom

Family: Fabaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Island broom is a California native perennial herb or shrub found in coastal and island habitats. Flowering from spring to summer, this plant produces bright yellow flowers with wings approximately equal to the keel, each bloom 8 to 12 millimeters long. Growing with decumbent to ascending stems 50 to 200 centimeters tall that are sparsely strigose or silky, it has a variable green or gray appearance. Its leaves are irregularly pinnate with 7 to 15 millimeter leaflets that are elliptic to obovate in shape, carried on gland-like stipules. The fruit is an indehiscent, oblong-tapering pod with a narrow, abruptly curved beak 2 to 3 millimeters long.

California counties: Ventura, Santa Barbara, Los Angeles

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.