Trifolium tomentosum |
Trifolium leibergii |
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woolly clover |
Leiberg's clover |
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Habit | Herbs annual, 10–20 cm, glabrous or sparsely hairy. | Herbs perennial, 10–15 cm, canescent. |
Stems | prostrate, ascending, or erect, branched. |
erect, aerial stems sparsely branched. |
Leaves | palmate; stipules ovate or triangular-lanceolate, 0.4–1.2 cm, margins entire, apex acute or acuminate; petiole 0.5–7 cm; petiolules to 1 mm; leaflets 3, blades obovate, obcordate, or elliptic, 0.4–1.5 × 0.3–1 cm, base cuneate, veins moderately prominent, margins denticulate, apex rounded or emarginate, surfaces sparsely hairy abaxially, glabrous adaxially. |
palmate; stipules lanceolate, 0.7–1.5 cm, margins coarsely spinulose-dentate, apex acuminate; petiole 1–3 cm; petiolules to 0.5 mm; leaflets 3, blades obovate, rhombic, or elliptic, sometimes folded, 0.9–1.5 × 0.5–1.3 cm, base cuneate, veins very thick, margins coarsely spinulose-dentate, apex rounded, long-apiculate, surfaces canescent. |
Inflorescences | axillary, 10–20-flowered, subglobose, soon becoming globose, flowers resupinate, calyces densely white-woolly, compacted, inflated, 0.5–1.5 × 0.5–1.5 cm; involucres a narrow rim, 0.2 mm. |
axillary, 5–25-flowered, globose, 2.2–2.5 × 2.3–2.7 cm; involucres a narrow, papery, irregular rim, to 0.5 mm. |
Peduncles | 0.5–1.5 cm. |
2–4.5 cm. |
Pedicels | slightly reflexed, to 0.5 mm; bracteoles cup-shaped, membranous, 0.2 mm. |
reflexed in fruit, 1.5–4 mm; bracteoles triangular, to 0.2 mm. |
Flowers | 3–7 mm; calyx tubular, inflated in fruit, markedly asymmetric-bilabiate, 2–6 mm, woolly adaxially, veins 5–10, connected by lateral veins, tube 1.5–2.5 mm, 4–5 mm in fruit, lobes unequal, subulate, shorter than tube, adaxial spreading or curved, orifice open, abruptly constricted in fruit; corolla pink, 3–6 mm, banner ovate, 3–6 × 3–6 mm, apex emarginate to crenulate. |
11–15 mm; calyx campanulate, 5–11 mm, pilose, veins 10, tube 1.8–2.2 mm, lobes subequal, lanceolate-setiform, orifice open; corolla creamy white with purplish veins, becoming pinkish purple-tinged, 10.5–13 mm, banner broadly rhombic-ovate or obovate, 10.5–13 × 5–7 mm, apex rounded, slightly emarginate. |
Legumes | ovoid to globose, 2–3 mm. |
ovoid, 3–4 mm. |
Seeds | 1 or 2, yellow to brown, mottled, mitten-shaped, 0.9–1.1 mm, smooth, glossy. |
1 or 2, brown, mitten-shaped, 1.5–2 mm, smooth. |
2n | = 16. |
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Trifolium tomentosum |
Trifolium leibergii |
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Phenology | Flowering Feb–Apr. | Flowering Jun–Jul. |
Habitat | Sandy lawns, fields, meadows, roadsides, clay soils among vernal pools. | Open, rocky slopes and crests, ash-flows. |
Elevation | 0–400 m. (0–1300 ft.) | 1900–2400 m. (6200–7900 ft.) |
Distribution |
CA; FL; MA; NC; SC; s Europe (Mediterranean); sw Asia; n Africa; Atlantic Islands (Azores) [Introduced in North America; introduced also in South America (Chile), s Africa, Pacific Islands (New Zealand), Australia]
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NV; OR |
Discussion | Trifolium tomentosum is occasionally cultivated as a forage crop (F. J. Hermann 1953) and is becoming weedy in the flora area and in Australia (R. P. Randall 2002). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Trifolium leibergii is known from only a few populations from Harney County, Oregon, and Elko County, Nevada. It is in the Center for Plant Conservation’s National Collection of Endangered Plants. (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 | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 2: 771. (1753) | A. Nelson & J. F. Macbride: Bot. Gaz. 65: 58. (1918) |
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