Trifolium ciliolatum |
Trifolium macrocephalum |
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foothill clover, tree clover |
big-head clover, large-head clover |
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Habit | Mostly glabrous annual with several decumbent to erect stems 1.5-5 dm. long. | Pubescent perennial from a thick root and rhizomes, the stems erect, 1-3 dm. tall. |
Leaves | Leaves alternate, trifoliate; stipules 1-2.5 cm. long, with entire, acuminate tips; leaflets oblong-elliptic to oblanceolate or broader, 1-3.5 cm. long, finely denticulate the entire length, the teeth needle-like. |
Leaves with 5-9 leaflets, these rather thick, oblanceolate to obcordate, 1.5-2.5 cm. long; stipules ovate-lanceolate, their margins lacerate. |
Flowers | Inflorescence of 10- to 50-flowered heads, the heads axillary as well as terminal, 1-2 cm. long, subglobose, without an involucre; flowers white to purplish, 6-12 mm. long, erect but becoming reflexed as the pedicles elongate to up to 6 mm.; calyx glabrous, about equal to the corolla, the tube 10-veined, the 5 teeth fringed, 2-3 times as long as the tube, the upper 2 much the longest. |
Heads mostly solitary and terminal, 3-5 cm. broad and long, the peduncles exceeding the leaves; flowers 22-28 mm. long, pale pinkish to rose-pink, spreading to erect, the pedicels very short; calyx 2/3 as long as the corolla, the 5 teeth awl-shaped, plumose, many times as long as the tube. |
Fruits | Pod 1-seeded |
Pod 1-seeded. |
Trifolium ciliolatum |
Trifolium macrocephalum |
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Flowering time | April-June | April-June |
Habitat | Wet meadows to rather dry, sandy soil. | Shrub-steppe, sagebrush desert and ponderosa pine woodlands. |
Distribution | Occurring east of the Cascades crest in south-central Washington; south-central Washington to California.
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Occurring east of the Cascades crest in Washington; Washington, south through eastern Oregon, east to Idaho and Nevada.
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Origin | Native | Native |
Conservation status | Not of concern | Not of concern |
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