Trifolium brandegeei |
Trifolium palmeri |
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Brandegee's clover |
Palmer's clover, southern island clover |
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Habit | Herbs perennial, 5–15 cm, glabrous. | Herbs annual, 4–40 cm, glabrous. |
Stems | cespitose, short-branched. |
erect or ascending, 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. |
palmate; stipules lanceolate, 0.5–2.5 cm, margins entire or slightly serrate, apex acuminate; petiole 0.5–5 cm; petiolules to 1 mm; leaflets 3, blades narrowly elliptic or lanceolate, 0.8–3 × 0.3–0.8 cm, base cuneate, veins thickened, margins setose-serrulate, apex acute, 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. |
axillary or terminal, 10–20-flowered, globose to subglobose, 0.5–2 × 0.5–2 cm, rachis prolonged beyond flowers; involucres absent. |
Peduncles | 6–20 cm. |
1–5 cm. |
Pedicels | strongly reflexed, 1–2 mm; bracteoles linear, minute. |
becoming dramatically reflexed, 3–4 mm; bracteoles low, broadly triangular, membranous, to 0.5 mm. |
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. |
5–9 mm; calyx narrowly campanulate, 5–6.5 mm, glabrous, veins 10, tube 2–3 mm, lobes unequal, narrowly triangular to acicular, margins green or purple, membranous, orifice open; corolla pink or purple, 5–9 mm, banner narrowly elliptic-oblong, 5–9 × 3–4 mm, apex narrowly rounded to acute. |
Legumes | oblong, 6.5–7 mm. |
ovoid-ellipsoid, 4–6 mm. |
Seeds | 1–3, yellow and red, flattened ovoid, 2–2.5 mm, smooth. |
1 or 2, yellow, purple-mottled, mitten-shaped, 2 mm, smooth. |
2n | = 16. |
= 16. |
Trifolium brandegeei |
Trifolium palmeri |
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Phenology | Flowering Jul–Aug. | Flowering Mar–Jun. |
Habitat | Open montane forests and subalpine areas. | Thin soils on slopes. |
Elevation | 3500–3700 m. (11500–12100 ft.) | 0–50 m. (0–200 ft.) |
Distribution |
CO; NM
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CA; Mexico (Baja California) |
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.) |
Trifolium palmeri is known from the islands off the coast of southern California and Baja California, Mexico. It was long considered a variety of T. gracilentum but molecular analyses support its recognition as distinct (N. W. Ellison et al. 2006). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 11. | FNA vol. 11. |
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Synonyms | T. gracilentum var. palmeri | |
Name authority | S. Watson: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 11: 130. (1876) — (as brandegei) | S. Watson: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 11: 132. (1876) |
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