Species
Hosackia pinnata (Meadow bird's foot trefoil)
Hosackia pinnata. Photo: (c) David Greenberger, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND)
Hosackia pinnata, synonym Lotus pinnatus, is a species of legume native to western North America from British Columbia to California. It is known by the common names meadow bird’s-foot trefoil and bog bird’s-foot trefoil. Its distribution extendsg into British Columbia in just a few rare occurrences near Nanaimo. It grows in moist to wet habitat, such as bogs and spring meadows. It is a hairless perennial herb lined with leaves each made up of green oval…
- Humboldt Life
- Kingdom: Plantae (Plants)
- Phylum: Tracheophyta (Vascular plants)
- Subphylum: Angiospermae (Flowering plants)
- Class: Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
- Order: Fabales (Legumes, milkworts, and allies)
- Family: Fabaceae (Legumes)
- Subfamily: Faboideae
- Tribe: Loteae
- Genus: Hosackia
- Species: Hosackia pinnata (Meadow bird's foot trefoil)
- Genus: Hosackia
- Tribe: Loteae
- Subfamily: Faboideae
- Family: Fabaceae (Legumes)
- Order: Fabales (Legumes, milkworts, and allies)
- Class: Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
- Subphylum: Angiospermae (Flowering plants)
- Phylum: Tracheophyta (Vascular plants)
- Kingdom: Plantae (Plants)


