Family | FABACEAE |
Genus species | Acmispon oroboides (Kunth) Brouillet trib. Loteae |
Bibliography | J. Bot. Res. Inst. Texas 2: 391 (2008) |
Native Range | Utah to Mexico |
Primary Biome | Subtropical |
Habitat | sandy grassland |
Description | stems ramose, leaves shortly petiolate or subsessile, cinereous grey, leaflets oblong to linear-oblong, flowers solitary, calyx lobes subulate, pod strigose |
Size | 10-15cm |
Color | pale yellow |
Bloom | spring |
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Type | perennial |
Cultivation | sunny site with a poor, sandy soil alpine house, sandy soil, sun |
Propagation | seed in spring, dark, moist, germ. 1 month, 18-21°C cuttings in late spring and late summer |
Synonyms | Anil ehrenbergiana (Steud.) Kuntze Anil hippocrepoides (Schltdl.) Kuntze Anisolotus puberulus (Benth.) Wooton & Standl. Cracca oroboides (Kunth) Kuntze Hosackia angustifolia G.Don Hosackia mexicana Benth. Hosackia puberula Benth. Indigofera ehrenbergiana Steud. Indigofera hippocrepoides Schltdl. Indigofera lotoides Schltdl. Lotus angustifolius Moc. & Sessé ex G.Don Lotus oroboides (Kunth) Ottley Lotus puberulus (Benth) Greene Ottleya oroboides (Kunth) D.D.Sokoloff Tephrosia oroboides Kunth Tephrosia oroboides var. leiocarpa DC. |
Territory | 7 Northern America 76 Southwestern U.S.A. (ARI Arizona, NEV Nevada, UTA Utah) 77 South-Central U.S.A. (NWM New Mexico, TEX Texas) 79 Mexico (MXC Mexico Central, MXE Mexico Northeast, MXG Mexico Gulf, MXN Mexico Northwest, MXS Mexico Southwest) |