Trifolium brandegeei |
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Brandegee's clover |
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Habit | Herbs perennial, 5–15 cm, glabrous. |
Stems | cespitose, short-branched. |
Leaves | palmate; stipules broadly lanceolate, 1–1.5 cm, margins entire, apex acute-acuminate; petiole 0.6–1.2 cm; petiolules to 0.5 mm; leaflets 3, blades ovate, oblong-elliptic, or elliptic, 0.8–3 × 0.4–1.5 cm, base cuneate, veins moderately thickened, margins entire or faintly serrate, apex acute to rounded or minutely apiculate, surfaces glabrous. |
Inflorescences | terminal, 4–15-flowered, ovoid-ellipsoid, 2.5–4 × 2.2–3 cm, rachis prolonged ca. 10 mm beyond distalmost flower; involucres absent. |
Peduncles | 6–20 cm. |
Pedicels | strongly reflexed, 1–2 mm; bracteoles linear, minute. |
Flowers | 15–18 mm; calyx whitish, campanulate, 7–10 mm, sparsely pubescent, veins 10, tube 4–5 mm, lobes subequal, longer than tube, narrowly triangular, acuminate, orifice open; corolla purple to magenta, 15–18 mm, banner broadly ovate, 15–17 × 7–9 mm, apex obtuse or retuse. |
Legumes | oblong, 6.5–7 mm. |
Seeds | 1–3, yellow and red, flattened ovoid, 2–2.5 mm, smooth. |
2n | = 16. |
Trifolium brandegeei |
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Phenology | Flowering Jul–Aug. |
Habitat | Open montane forests and subalpine areas. |
Elevation | 3500–3700 m. (11500–12100 ft.) |
Distribution |
CO; NM
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Discussion | A close relationship between Trifolium brandegeei and T. parryi was hypothesized by J. M. Gillett (1965); this has not been borne out by flavonoid chemosystematics (E. V. Parups et al. 1966) or DNA analyses (N. W. Ellison et al. 2006). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 11. |
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Name authority | S. Watson: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 11: 130. (1876) — (as brandegei) |
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