Trifolium lemmonii

Lemmon's clover

Family: Fabaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Conservation status: CNPS 4.2

Lemmon's clover is a native perennial herb found in northern Sierra Nevada Mountains in pine forests and sagebrush flats at elevations of 1,500 to 1,800 meters. Flowering from May to July, this plant produces delicate pink-white flowers in compact, spherical umbels 1.5 to 2.5 centimeters wide. Growing in dense tufted clusters with strigose stems, it forms a low-spreading perennial herb. Its distinctive leaves have 3 to 7 thick, obovate leaflets 1 to 2 centimeters long with coarse serrated edges, featuring larger teeth approximately 0.4 to 0.5 millimeters wide. The flower's calyx is slender with bristle-like lobes, and its peduncle is characteristically bent or curved.

Habitat: Pine forest, sagebrush flats

Bloom period: May-Jul

Elevation: 1500-1800 m

Bioregions: n SNH

California counties: Plumas, Sierra, Nevada, Placer

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