Trifolium mucronatum |
Trifolium kingii |
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cusp clover |
King's clover |
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Habit | Herbs perennial, 2–40 cm, glabrous. | |
Stems | erect or ascending, branched from root stock. |
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Leaves | palmate; stipules lanceolate, 0.8–3 cm, margins entire, apex acuminate; petiole 0.8–15 cm; petiolules 1 mm; leaflets 3, blades ovate, elliptic, or lanceolate, 0.5–8 × 0.4–2.6 cm, basal blades thick, base cuneate, veins prominent, margins sharply serrate, those of basal leaves entire, sometimes shortly setose, apex acute, obtuse, or obcordate, surfaces glabrous. |
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Inflorescences | terminal or axillary, 20–35-flowered, inverted or horizontal, depressed-globose or obovoid, 1.5–3.2 × 1.5–3 cm, rachis internodes not especially elongated; involucres absent. |
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Peduncles | curved apically, 3–14 cm. |
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Pedicels | reflexed, 0.5 mm; bracteoles broadly ovate, blunt, minute. |
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Flowers | 12–16 mm; calyx campanulate, 5–6 mm, usually sparsely pubescent, sometimes glabrate, veins 5, tube 2–3.5 mm, lobes equal, 1–1.5 times tube, subulate, curved, orifice open; corolla usually pink-purple, rarely white, 13–15 mm, banner lanceolate-ovate, 15–18 × 4–5 mm, apex rounded; ovaries glabrous. |
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Legumes | flattened, ellipsoid, 3–4 mm. |
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Seeds | 1–3, brown, flattened ovoid, 2–2.2 mm, smooth. |
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The | difficulty of distinguishing Trifolium mucronatum from T. wormskioldii is discussed under 33. T. wormskioldii. |
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Populations | in the United States represent T. mucronatum subsp. lacerum; in Mexico, subsp. lacerum is found in the north, subsp. mucronatum (petals pink or reddish, flowers 1.5–1.7 cm, inflorescences 2.5–3.5 cm diam.) is widespread, and subsp. vaughanae J. |
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Gillett | (petals lavender or white, flowers 1.2–1.4 cm, inflorescences 1.5–2 cm diam.) is restricted to central Mexico (Guanajuato, San Luis Potosí) (J.; gillett 1980). |
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2n | = 16. |
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Trifolium mucronatum |
Trifolium kingii |
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Phenology | Flowering Jul–Aug. | |
Habitat | Alpine meadows, stream banks, open aspen and spruce-fir woods. | |
Elevation | 2200–3300 m. (7200–10800 ft.) | |
Distribution |
w United States; sc United States; n Mexico
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CO; NV; UT
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Discussion | Subspecies 3 (1 in the flora). Trifolium involucratum Ortega (1797), which pertains here, is a later homonym of T. involucratum Lamarck (1778, = T. cherleri Linnaeus). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Trifolium kingii is widely distributed throughout Utah (S. L. Welsh et al. 2008), is found in Mesa County southward to Dolores County in Colorado, and is found rarely in eastern Nevada. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 11. | FNA vol. 11. |
Parent taxa | Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Trifolium | Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Trifolium |
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Name authority | Willdenow ex Sprengel: Syst. Veg. 3: 208. (1826) | S. Watson: Botany (Fortieth Parallel), 59. (1871) |
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