Trifolium depauperatum var. truncatum

Truncate sack clover, Truncate Sack Clover

Family: Fabaceae · Type: annual · Native

Truncate sack clover is a California native annual herb found in North Coast Ranges, Cascade Range, Sierra Nevada Foothills, Tehachapi Mountains, Central Valley, Central Western California, Southern California Coast, Channel Islands, and Peninsular Ranges in grassy flats, disturbed slopes, and woodland openings at elevations below 800 meters. Flowering from April to June, this plant produces small white to pale pink flowers in compact clusters with distinctive truncate leaflet tips. Growing with slender stems 10 to 30 centimeters tall, it forms delicate branching clusters across open grasslands. Its leaves have three leaflets that characteristically end in flattened or truncate tips with small teeth along the edges. The small ovate fruit is approximately 2 to 3 millimeters long, nearly equal in length to its style.

Habitat: Grassy flats, disturbed slopes, openings in woodland

Bloom period: Apr-Jun

Elevation: < 800 m

Bioregions: NCoR, CaRF, SNF, Teh, GV, CW, SCo, ChI, PR.

California counties: Los Angeles, Kern, Riverside, San Diego, Merced, Butte, Monterey, Contra Costa, San Benito, Tulare, San Luis Obispo, Sacramento, San Francisco, Sonoma, Orange, Madera, Santa Barbara, Santa Clara, Alameda, Ventura, San Bernardino, Marin, San Joaquin, Napa, Solano, Santa Cruz, Glenn, Colusa, Tehama, Shasta, El Dorado, Calaveras, Yolo, Fresno, Stanislaus, Lake, Tuolumne, San Mateo, Alpine

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