Hosackia stipularis

Stipulate lotus

Family: Fabaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Stipulate lotus is a California native perennial found in coastal and northern California regions in open woodlands and grasslands. Flowering from April to June, this plant produces pink to red-purple flowers in small clusters of 4 to 9 blooms, with petals 10 to 12 millimeters long. Growing with soft-hairy spreading stems 15 to 50 centimeters tall, it forms an open, delicate structure. Its leaves have distinctive large stipules that resemble additional leaflets, with 9 to 15 leaflets each 5 to 20 millimeters long, arranged in an oblong to ovate shape. The fruit is a widely oblong pod 2 to 2.5 centimeters long, lightly covered in soft hairs.

California counties: Madera, Napa, Ventura, San Mateo, Humboldt, Placer, Sierra, Amador, Monterey, Mendocino, Shasta, Lake, Plumas, Sonoma, Santa Cruz

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