Trifolium breweri
Brewer's clover
Family: Fabaceae · Type: perennial · Native
Brewer's clover is a California native perennial found in the Klamath Ranges, northern California Ranges, and northern Sierra Nevada in dry forest, open areas, and roadsides at elevations of 200 to 1,800 meters. Flowering from May to August, this plant produces yellow-white to pink-lavender flowers in compact umbel-like clusters 1 to 2 centimeters wide with 5 to 15 flowers. Growing with decumbent to ascending stems that are softly hairy, it reaches moderate heights with delicate branching. Its leaves have 5 to 20 millimeter leaflets that are generally obovate, slightly entire to serrate, with stipules that sheath or spread lance-like along the stem. The delicate flowers emerge from the corolla with seeds that typically extend beyond the flower's initial structure.
Habitat: dry forest, open areas, roadsides
Bloom period: May-Aug
Elevation: 200-1800 m
Bioregions: KR, CaR, n&c SN
California counties: Tuolumne, Del Norte, Plumas, Madera, Trinity, Butte, El Dorado, Siskiyou, Yuba, Tehama, Mariposa, Calaveras, Sierra, Shasta, Fresno, Lassen, Humboldt, Sonoma, Napa
Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.