Trifolium andersonii

Anderson's clover

Family: Fabaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Anderson's clover is a California native perennial found in alpine and subalpine meadows at high elevations. Flowering from June to August, this plant produces delicate pink-purple flowers in compact head-like clusters approximately 1.5 to 2.5 centimeters wide. Growing as a short-tufted or cushion-forming herb with soft, silvery-gray hairs, it forms dense mats close to the ground. Its leaves are composed of 3 to 7 oblanceolate to obovate leaflets, each 5 to 20 millimeters long, with entire margins and persistent stipules. The plant's calyx is 8 to 10 millimeters long, with slender plumose lobes covered in soft hairs approximately 1 millimeter long.

California counties: Inyo, Plumas, Lassen, Sierra, Mono

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