Trifolium grayi
Gray's clover
Family: Fabaceae · Type: perennial · Native
Gray's clover is a California native perennial found in northern Coast Ranges, northern and central Sierra Nevada, Sacramento Valley, San Francisco Bay Area, and southern Coast Ranges in wet meadows, foothill slopes, and pine woodland at elevations below 600 meters. Flowering from April to June, this clover produces purple flowers with white tips in inflorescences 8 to 16 millimeters long. Growing with slender stems, it forms low-spreading clusters typical of clover species. Its leaves are compound with three leaflets, characteristic of the trifolium genus. The flower's calyx tube measures 3 to 5 millimeters, roughly equal to its lobes and supporting a delicate purple and white blossom.
Habitat: Wet meadows, foothill slopes, pine woodland
Bloom period: Apr-Jun
Elevation: < 600 m
Bioregions: NCoRO, n&c SN, ScV, SnFrB, SCoRO.
California counties: Sonoma, Amador, Tuolumne, Santa Cruz, San Mateo, Monterey, Marin, San Luis Obispo, Mendocino, Sacramento, Alameda, Santa Clara
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