Trifolium ciliolatum |
Trifolium fragiferum |
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foothill clover |
strawberry clover |
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Habit | Plants annual, erect, 5–50 cm, glabrous or sparsely hairy; branched. | Plants perennial, prostrate or creeping, 5–50 cm, pubescent or glabrous; branched; rooting at nodes. |
Leaves | palmate; leaflets 3, elliptic to oblong or obovate, 8–35 × 5–15 mm, bases cuneate; margins serrate proximally, obscurely denticulate distally; veins thickened; tips usually rounded or retuse, rarely acute; surfaces glabrous; petioles 10–130 mm; petiolules ~0.5 mm; stipules ovate-lanceolate, 10–15 mm; margins entire, sometimes ciliate; tips acuminate. |
pinnate; leaflets 3; ovate, obovate, or elliptic, 5–30 × 3–15 mm, bases cuneate; margins spinulose-denticulate; veins prominent, thickened, curved; tips obtuse, often retuse; surfaces abaxially hairy, adaxially glabrous; petioles 10–90 mm; petiolules ~1 mm; stipules linear or lanceolate, dilated proximally, 13–20 mm; margins entire; tips subulate or acuminate. |
Inflorescences | axillary or terminal, 10–30-flowered; ovoid becoming subglobose, 7–22 × 5–20 mm; involucres a narrow, membranous, dentate rim; ~0.5 mm; bracteoles linear or cup-shaped; ? 1 mm. |
axillary; erect or ascending, 10–30-flowered, globose, 8–20 × 8–20 mm, distinctly involucrate by bracts of proximal flowers; involucres cup-shaped; bracts distinct or connate proximally, lanceolate-oblong, 3–6 mm; bracteoles linear or lanceolate, 2–3 mm, acuminate or 2-fid. |
Peduncles | 25–120 mm. |
30–170 mm. |
Pedicels | erect but becoming reflexed, 0.5–6 mm. |
straight; ? 0.5 mm. |
Flowers | 6–13 mm; calyces broadly campanulate, 5–11 mm, glabrous; veins 10; tubes 1–5 mm; lobes elliptic to linear, unequal; margins hyaline, markedly ciliate, dentate or pectinate; sinuses narrow; orifices open; corollas 5–13 mm, white, pink, or purple; banners broadly ovate, 6–13 × 4–7 mm; tips rounded, apiculate. |
6–8 mm; calyces tubular, inflated in fruit, markedly asymmetric-bilabiate, 2.5–7 mm, usually pilose to woolly, sometimes glabrescent; veins 5–10, connected by reticulating lateral veins; tubes 2–7 mm; lobes unequal; abaxial straight; ? tube; very unequal in fruit; adaxial spreading in fruit; < tube; orifices open; corollas 5–8 mm, white to pink; banners oblong-lanceolate, 5–8 × 2 mm; tips emarginate to crenulate. |
Fruits | longitudinally dehiscent; ovoid, 5–10 mm; < 2 × as long as calyces; short-stipitate. |
ovoid, 2.5–3 mm; < calyces; long-beaked. |
Seeds | 1–2; ovoid, 2.5–3 mm, brown, mottled; smooth. |
1–2, globose-reniform, 1–1.4 mm, tan or brown-spotted; smooth; dull. |
2n | =16. |
=16. |
Trifolium ciliolatum |
Trifolium fragiferum |
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Distribution | ||
Discussion | Oak-pine chaparral, meadows, roadsides. Flowering May–Jun. 50–800 m. Col, ECas, Sisk, WV. CA, WA; south to Mexico. Native. |
Meadows, fields, roadsides, sandy and saline soil. Flowering Jul–Sep. 0–1500 m. BR, Col, ECas, Est, Lava, Owy, Sisk, WV. CA, ID, NV, WA; scattered in North America; Africa, Asia, Europe. Exotic. Trifolium fragiferum is native to Eurasia. It is cultivated for pastures and in mixtures with grass for hay and silage and to a lesser extent as groundcover in orchards and vineyards and as a green manure cover crop (St. John et al. 2010). |
Source | Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 725 Michael Vincent |
Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 728 Michael Vincent |
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