Latin name: Acmispon brachycarpus (Benth.) D.D. Sokoloff
Pronunciation: ak-MIS-pon brak-ee-KAR-pus
Common name: Hill lotus
Family: Fabaceae (Pea)
Habitat: Grasslands, oak and pine woodlands, and desert flats and mountains to about 5500' throughout most of California
Blooming period: March to June
Name derivations: 1) Acmispon 2) brachycarpus
Formerly Lotus humistratus
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