Trifolium angustifolium |
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narrow-leaf clover, narrow-leaf crimson clover |
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Habit | Herbs annual, 10–30 cm, appressed-pubescent. |
Stems | erect, unbranched to sparsely branched. |
Leaves | palmate; stipules lanceolate to linear, 0.5–2.2 cm, margins entire, apex lanceolate-linear; petiole 2–3 cm; petiolules 1+ mm; leaflets 3, blades linear-lanceolate, 3–5 × 0.2–0.4 cm, base cuneate, veins fine, margins entire, apex acute, surfaces hairy. |
Inflorescences | terminal, 25–75-flowered, spicate, cylindric or conic, 3–8 × 1.5–2 cm; involucres absent. |
Peduncles | 1–2.2 cm. |
Pedicels | erect, 0.5 mm; bracteoles absent. |
Flowers | 10–13 mm; calyx tubular, 8–13 mm, tuberculate with appressed, stiff hairs, veins 10, tube 3–5 mm, lobes unequal, abaxial lobes longest, subulate-setaceous, spreading stellate in fruit, orifice closed by bilabiate callosities, hairy; corolla usually pale pink or purple, rarely white, 9–12 mm, banner ovate-elliptic, 9–12 × 2–2.5 mm, apex notched. |
Legumes | ovoid, leathery distally, transversely dehiscent, 2.2–2.5 mm. |
Seeds | 1, light brown or yellow, ovoid, 1.6–2 mm, smooth, glossy. |
2n | = 14, 16. |
Trifolium angustifolium |
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Phenology | Flowering Mar–Apr. |
Habitat | Waste places, fields, meadows. |
Elevation | 0–1000 m. (0–3300 ft.) |
Distribution |
AL; CA; OR; SC; Europe; w Asia; n Africa; Atlantic Islands (Canary Islands) [Introduced in North America; introduced also in s South America (Chile, Uruguay), s Africa, Pacific Islands (New Zealand), Australia]
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Discussion | Trifolium angustifolium is spreading rapidly in west-central California and is weedy in many regions globally (R. P. Randall 2002). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 11. |
Parent taxa | Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Trifolium |
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Name authority | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 2: 769. (1753) |
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