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Pinpoint Clover
( Trifolium gracilentum )
Trifolium gracilentum
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About Pinpoint Clover (Trifolium gracilentum)
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Trifolium gracilentum
is a species of clover known by the common names pinpoint clover and slender clover. It is native to western North America including the west coast of the United States and northwestern Mexico, where it grows in many types of habitat, including disturbed areas. It is an annual herb growing prostrate to erect in form with mostly hairless or slightly hairy herbage. The leaves are made up of lance-shaped to oval leaflets. The inflorescence is an umbel of flowers that spread out or flex downward. The flowers have pink or purple corollas less than a centimeter long. One variety of this species, var. palmeri, is a rare plant limited to the Channel Islands of California; it is sometimes treated as a species in its own right,
Trifolium palmeri
.
Plant Description
Plant Type
Annual herb
Flower Color
Purple, Pink
Flowering Season
Spring
Wildlife Supported
Butterflies & moths hosted ( 64
likely
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Gray Hairstreak
Strymon melinus
Strymon melinus
*
Orange Sulphur
Colias eurytheme
Colias eurytheme
*
Southern Dogface
Zerene cesonia
Zerene cesonia
*
Shasta Blue
Icaricia shasta
Icaricia shasta
*
Greenish Blue
Icaricia saepiolus
Icaricia saepiolus
*
Persius Duskywing
Erynnis persius
Erynnis persius
*
Clouded Sulphur
Colias philodice
Colias philodice
Landscaping Information
Sun
Full Sun
Moisture
Moderate - High
Nurseries
Carried by 4
Common uses
Bee Gardens
Natural Setting
Site Type
Moist grassy places and other wet places
Climate
Annual Precipitation: 5.8" - 63.8", Summer Precipitation: 0.14" - 2.60", Coldest Month: 34.4" - 57.4", Hottest Month: 58.1" - 80.9", Humidity: 0.23" - 31.09", Elevation: -32" - 6188"
Alternative Names
Common Names
: Slender Clover
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Trifolium gracilentum
Sources include:
Wikipedia
. All text shown in the "About" section of these pages is available under the
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License
. Plant observation data provided by the participants of the
California Consortia of Herbaria
, Sunset information provided by
Jepson Flora Project
. Propogation from seed information provided by the
Santa Barbara Botanical Garden
from "Seed Propagation of Native California Plants" by Dara E. Emery. Sources of plant photos include
CalPhotos
,
Wikimedia Commons
, and independent plant photographers who have agreed to share their images with Calscape. Other general sources of information include
Calflora
,
CNPS Manual of Vegetation Online
,
Jepson Flora Project
,
Las Pilitas
,
Theodore Payne
,
Tree of Life
,
The Xerces Society
, and information provided by CNPS volunteer editors, with special thanks to Don Rideout. Climate data used in creation of plant range maps is from
PRISM Climate Group, Oregon State University
, using 30 year (1981-2010) annual "normals" at an 800 meter spatial resolution.
Links:
Jepson eFlora Taxon Page
CalPhotos
Wikipedia
Calflora
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