Calflora: Acmispon argophyllus

Acmispon argophyllus (A. Gray) Brouillet

Silver birds foot trefoil

Acmispon argophyllus, a dicot, is a perennial herb that is native to California and is also found outside of California, but is confined to western North America.

Communities:	Foothill Woodland, Coastal Sage Scrub, Chaparral, Pinyon-Juniper Woodland, Yellow Pine Forest
Habitat:	slopes [Walker]
Wetlands:	Occurs in wetlands in another region, but occurs almost always under natural conditions in non wetlands in California [U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.]
Elevation:	between 0 and 5249 feet
Family:	FABACEAE
Related:	See a list of other species in the genus Acmispon found in California.
	This is a parent record; distribution data is an aggregate of data for subspecies and varieties: Acmispon argophyllus var. adsurgens Acmispon argophyllus var. argenteus Acmispon argophyllus var. argophyllus Acmispon argophyllus var. fremontii Acmispon argophyllus var. niveus

Name Status:

Accepted by TJM2

Other Names:

TJM2:

Lotus argophyllus

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Distribution by County:

See a detailed Distribution Grid of this plant in California.

A shaded county indicates that there are ocurrence records of this plant within the county.

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	There are specimen records from this county in an herbarium.
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	There are reported records.
	There are reported records available indirectly (eg. in botanical literature).

Records by County, with approximate record counts in the form: TOTAL / CCH. Click county name to view records.

Butte: 23 / 22 CCH Calaveras: 1 / 0 CCH El Dorado: 14 / 14 CCH Fresno: 19 / 17 CCH Imperial: 8 / 8 CCH Inyo: 1 / 1 CCH Kern: 38 / 35 CCH Los Angeles: 127 / 118 CCH Madera: 5 / 4 CCH Mono: 1 / 1 CCH Monterey: 46 / 27 CCH Mariposa: 12 / 9 CCH Nevada: 5 / 2 CCH Orange: 3 / 1 CCH Placer: 11 / 10 CCH Plumas: 9 / 7 CCH Riverside: 101 / 98 CCH Sacramento: 2 / 2 CCH Santa Barbara: 63 / 60 CCH San Bernardino: 53 / 52 CCH San Benito: 1 / 1 CCH Santa Clara: 1 / 1 CCH San Diego: 239 / 226 CCH San Francisco: 1 / 1 CCH Shasta: 1 / 1 CCH San Luis Obispo: 2 / 2 CCH Tulare: 25 / 23 CCH Ventura: 62 / 59 CCH Yuba: 1 / 1 CCH

CCH: records provided by the participants of the Consortium of California Herbaria.

Information about Acmispon argophyllus from other sources:

Photos on Picasa / Flickr / Google Images
website references on Google
Nursery availability and horticultural info (what grows with this plant?) on CNPLX
2012 Jepson Manual Treament from the Jepson Herbarium,
University of California, Berkeley
Search efloras.org (Flora of North America)