Hosackia rosea

Rose flowered lotus

Family: Fabaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Rose flowered lotus is a California native perennial found in northern Coast Ranges, northern California Coast, and northern Sierra Nevada foothills in banks, streamsides, burns, and logged areas at elevations below 800 meters. Flowering from May to July, this plant produces white to pink flowers in clusters of 6 to 10 blooms, with petals becoming darker with age. Growing with spreading or erect stems 10 to 70 centimeters tall that are glabrous or slightly hairy, it forms a delicate herbaceous structure. Its leaves contain 9 to 15 elliptic leaflets, each 1.5 to 3 centimeters long, arranged with scarious, fragile stipules. The fruit develops as an oblong pod 3 to 5 centimeters long, containing several seeds.

Habitat: Banks, streamsides, burns, logged areas

Bloom period: May-Jul

Elevation: < 800 m

Bioregions: NCo, NCoRO, n SNH

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