Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

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Trifolium campestre var. campestre

Common name

Hop clover

Family

Fabaceae 

Where found

Woodland, grassy areas, disturbed sites, and gardens. Widespread.

Notes

Introduced annual herb to 0.5 m tall or prostrate. Calyx teeth spiny, and erect to spreading at the seeding stage. Stems sparsely hairy to almost hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, compound, with 3 leaflets, each 0.8-1.6 cm long, 4-8 mm wide, virtually hairless, margins finely toothed, tips squared off or rounded with a small notch; stipules leafy and fused to the stalks for about half their length. Flower heads many-flowered, 8–15 mm long, 7–10 mm in diameter. Individual flowers 4–7 mm long, pea-shaped, with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keelcalyx white, corolla yellow, persistent, standard petal spoon-shaped, hooded. Flowers mainly Sep.–Jan.

Varieties not recognised in NSW.

PlantNET description (as Trifolium campestre):  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Trifolium~campestre (accessed 3 May 2021)