Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Trifolium glomeratum
Common name
Clustered clover, Cluster clover, Clustered clover
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Grassy areas, disturbed sites, roadsides, and gardens. Widespread.
Notes
Introduced annual herb to 0.35 m tall or prostrate. Calyx teeth spiny, and spreading or curved down at the seeding stage. Stems hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, compound, with 3 leaflets, each leaflet 0.6-1.5 cm long, 4-10 mm wide, hairless, prominently veined, margins finely toothed, tips rounded or rounded with a small notch; stipules white, membranous, fused to the stalks for half their length. Flower heads globular, 8-10 mm long, 8–10 mm wide, with 20 flowers or more. Individual flowers white to pink, 6-8 mm long, pea shaped, with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel, persistent at the seeding stage. Flowers mainly Sep.–Dec.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Trifolium~glomeratum (accessed 3 May 2021)
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