Acmispon grandiflorus

Large leaved lotus

Family: Fabaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Large leaved lotus is a California native perennial found in coastal and interior mountain ranges in grassland and chaparral habitats. Flowering from March to June, this plant produces green-white or yellow flowers in clusters of 3 to 9 blooms, with individual flowers 15 to 25 millimeters long. Growing with decumbent to erect stems 10 to 40 centimeters tall, it has a spreading habit with glandular black stipules. Its leaves are irregularly pinnate with 7 to 9 elliptic to obovate leaflets, each approximately 1.5 to 3 times longer than wide. The fruit is a distinctive dehiscent pod 2.5 to 6 centimeters long, generally straight and occasionally featuring small horn-like processes.

California counties: Santa Barbara, Tulare, Los Angeles, Kern, Sonoma, San Bernardino, Shasta, Lake, San Diego, Colusa, Monterey, Riverside, Nevada, San Luis Obispo, Mendocino, Yuba, Solano

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