var. americanus
Pronunciation: ak-MIS-pon am-er-ik-AY-nus
Common name: Spanish clover
Family: Fabaceae (Pea)
Habitat: Dry fields and disturbed places in many plant
communities, cismontane, occasionally desert, coastal
and mountain forests, chaparral, watercourses, roadsides
Blooming period: May to October
Click for Latin name derivations: 1) Acmispon
2) americanus
Formerly Lotus purshianus var. purshianus