Trifolium productum |
Trifolium obtusiflorum |
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elongated clover, productive clover, Shasta clover |
clammy clover, creek clover |
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Habit | Herbs perennial, 15–45 cm, glabrous. | Herbs annual, 2–100 cm, resinous stipitate-glandular. |
Stems | ± erect, loosely cespitose, branched. |
erect or ascending, branched. |
Leaves | basal and cauline, palmate; stipules ovate-lanceolate, 0.5–2 cm, margins usually entire, sometimes lobed, apex acute to acuminate; petiole 0.5–12 cm; petiolules 1 mm; leaflets 3, blades lanceolate or elliptic, 0.5–2 × 0.3–1.3 cm, base cuneate, veins prominent, margins serrate, apex acute, apiculate, surfaces glabrous. |
palmate; stipules ovate, 1–1.5 cm, sheathing, margins deeply lacerate, apex acuminate; petiole 1.5–10 cm; petiolules to 0.5 mm; leaflets 3, blades elliptic, lanceolate, oblanceolate, rhombic, or obovate, 1.5–4 × 0.3–1.7 cm, base cuneate, veins thickened, margins coarsely spinulose-serrate, apex acute, mucronate, surfaces glandular. |
Inflorescences | terminal or axillary, 15–30-flowered, ellipsoid or conic, 1.5–2 × 1–3 cm, rachis prolonged beyond flowers, undivided or forked, often bearing sterile flower buds distally; involucres absent. |
axillary or terminal, 10–50-flowered, globose or ovoid, 1–3.5 × 1–3 cm; involucres flattened or bowl-shaped, 3–8 mm, when folded, not hiding flowers except proximally, incised 1/4–1/3 their length. |
Peduncles | 2–13 cm, slightly twisted apically. |
3–15 cm, glandular. |
Pedicels | strongly reflexed in fruit, 0.5 mm; bracteoles minute, lanceolate. |
erect, 1 mm; bracteoles absent. |
Flowers | 12–14 mm; calyx pink to purple, campanulate, 3–3.5 mm, glabrous, veins 10 (5 sometimes faint), tube 1.5–1.7 mm, lobes subequal, triangular-subulate, orifice open; corolla pink to deep purple, 12–14 mm, banner oblong, 12–14 × 4–5 mm, apex rounded or retuse. |
13–20 mm; calyx tubular-campanulate, slit between adaxial lobes, 10–13 mm, glandular, veins 20+, tube 5–7 mm, lobes unequal, narrowly triangular or lanceolate-subulate, usually entire, rarely 3-fid or shouldered below apex, orifice open; corolla white or pale pinkish with dark purple spot, 10–18 mm, banner broadly elliptic, 10–18 × 2–4 mm, apex blunt. |
Legumes | obliquely ellipsoid, 5 mm. |
obovoid, 3.5–4 mm. |
Seeds | 1 or 2, brown, often purple-mottled, flattened ovoid, 2–3 mm, smooth. |
1 or 2, brown, mottled, ellipsoid or mitten-shaped, 2.5 mm, smooth. |
2n | = 16. |
= 16. |
Trifolium productum |
Trifolium obtusiflorum |
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Phenology | Flowering May–Sep. | Flowering Apr–Jul. |
Habitat | Open coniferous woods, rocky places, stream banks, grassy meadows, near springs. | Moist swales, creek bottoms. |
Elevation | 1100–2800 m. (3600–9200 ft.) | 0–1600 m. (0–5200 ft.) |
Distribution |
CA; NV; OR
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CA; OR; Mexico (Baja California, Sinaloa)
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Discussion | Trifolium productum is morphologically most similar to T. kingii, from which it differs by its glabrous calyces and inflorescence rachises surpassing the flowers to 1.5 cm and apically forked (M. Zohary and D. Heller 1984). Trifolium productum is geographically isolated from T. kingii; the former is restricted to northern California, western Oregon, and western Nevada, while the latter is restricted to Utah and easternmost Nevada (J. M. Gillett 1972). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Trifolium obtusiflorum is much less common than the similar T. willdenovii, occurring in moist areas in cismontane California and north into Oregon (W. L. Jepson [1923–1925]). It is easy to distinguish from T. willdenovii by its glandularity, which causes fresh specimens to be sticky to the touch. (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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Synonyms | T. kingii subsp. productum, T. kingii var. productum | T. majus, T. roscidum, T. tridentatum var. obtusiflorum |
Name authority | Greene: Erythea 2: 181. (1894) | Hooker: Bot. Beechey Voy., 331. (1838) |
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