Trifolium ciliolatum |
Trifolium hirtum |
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foothill clover |
rose clover |
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Habit | Plants annual, erect, 5–50 cm, glabrous or sparsely hairy; branched. | Plants annual, curved-ascending, 10–35 cm, densely spreading-hairy; branched. |
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, obovate to oblong, 8–25 × 5–13 mm, bases cuneate; margins denticulate distally; veins prominent, closely-spaced; tips rounded; surfaces densely spreading-hairy; petioles 5–50 mm; petiolules ~0.5 mm; stipules lanceolate-ovate, 8–18 mm; margins entire; tips long-setaceous. |
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. |
terminal on branches, 10–50-flowered, globose or ovoid, 15–25 × 15–25 mm, disarticulating at maturity into fruiting calyces; involucres enlarged stipules; bracteoles absent. |
Peduncles | 25–120 mm. |
absent. |
Pedicels | erect but becoming reflexed, 0.5–6 mm. |
absent. |
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. |
10–17 mm; calyces campanulate, 7–11 mm, pilose; veins 20; tubes 2–5 mm; lobes subequal; abaxial slightly longer; orifices open, pilose; corollas 10–14 mm, pink to purplish red; banners lanceolate, 10–14 × 1–2 mm; tips acute-acuminate. |
Fruits | longitudinally dehiscent; ovoid, 5–10 mm; < 2 × as long as calyces; short-stipitate. |
transversely dehiscent; ovoid, 2–3 mm; ? calyces; leathery distally. |
Seeds | 1–2; ovoid, 2.5–3 mm, brown, mottled; smooth. |
1, globose-ellipsoid, 1.5–2 mm, tan or brown; smooth; glossy. |
2n | =16. |
=10. |
Trifolium ciliolatum |
Trifolium hirtum |
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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. |
Fields, roadsides. Flowering Apr–Jun. 50–800 m. Sisk, WV. CA; southeastern US; Africa, Asia, Europe. Exotic. Trifolium hirtum is native to the Mediterranean region. It was first cultivated in California in the 1940s and is used as a forage plant and as a nitrogen source in roadside grass plantings (Love 1985). |
Source | Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 725 Michael Vincent |
Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 730 Michael Vincent |
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