Trifolium gracilentum

Pinpoint clover, Pinpoint Clover

Family: Fabaceae · Type: annual · Native

Pinpoint clover is a California native annual found in California Floristic Province (excluding Channel Islands) and Mojave Desert in open, disturbed, moist or dry places at elevations below 1,800 meters. Flowering from March to June, this delicate clover produces pink to pink-purple flowers in small clusters 1 to 1.5 centimeters wide. Growing with prostrate to erect stems, it can spread low across the ground or stand upright with a variable growth habit. Its leaves have three leaflets 5 to 15 millimeters long, each obovate to slightly heart-shaped with acute teeth and a shallowly notched tip. The plant's tiny flowers, held on short 1 to 2 millimeter pedicels, become recurved as they age, giving the plant a distinctive delicate appearance.

Habitat: Open, disturbed, moist or dry places, occasionally serpentine

Bloom period: Mar-Jun

Elevation: < 1800 m

Bioregions: CA-FP (exc ChI), DMoj

California counties: Kern, Los Angeles, Riverside, Santa Barbara, San Bernardino, Ventura, San Luis Obispo, San Diego, Amador, Inyo, Sutter, Lake, Yolo, Humboldt, Solano, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Fresno, San Mateo, Contra Costa, Mariposa, San Joaquin, Alameda, Monterey, Orange, Marin, Tulare, San Francisco, San Benito, Sonoma, Placer, Kings, Tehama, Butte, Glenn, Mendocino, Stanislaus, Colusa, Sacramento, Calaveras, Merced, Napa, Tuolumne, Trinity, El Dorado, Nevada, Sierra

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