Acmispon brachycarpus: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Fabales
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Genus
- Acmispon
- Species
- Acmispon brachycarpus
- Scientific Name
- Acmispon brachycarpus
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Acmispon brachycarpus
Acmispon brachycarpus (formerly Lotus humistratus) is a species of legume known by the common name foothill deervetch. It is native to western North America from Idaho to Texas to northern Mexico, where it is known from many types of habitat. It is an annual herb spreading upright or taking a clumpy or matted form. It is lined with leaves each usually made up of four hairy, somewhat fleshy leaflets each up to about 1 cm long. Solitary yellow, pea-like flowers appear in the leaf axils. The fruit is a legume pod variable in size and shape.
...Acmispon brachycarpus in languages:
- English
- foothill deervetch
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Acmispon americanus
- Acmispon argophyllus
- Acmispon argyraeus
- Acmispon brachycarpus
- Acmispon cytisoides
- Acmispon decumbens
- Acmispon dendroideus
- Acmispon denticulatus
- Acmispon distichus
- Acmispon flexuosus
- Acmispon glaber
- Acmispon grandiflorus
- Acmispon haydonii
- Acmispon heermannii
- Acmispon helleri
- Acmispon intricatus
- Acmispon junceus
- Acmispon maritimus
- Acmispon mearnsii
- Acmispon micranthus
- Acmispon neomexicanus
- Acmispon nudatus
- Acmispon oroboides
- Acmispon parviflorus
- Acmispon procumbens
- Acmispon prostratus
- Acmispon rigidus
- Acmispon rubriflorus
- Acmispon subpinnatus
- Acmispon tomentosus
- Acmispon utahensis
- Acmispon watsonii
- Acmispon wrangelianus
- Acmispon wrightii





























































































































































