Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Trifolium angustifolium var. angustifolium
Common name
Narrow-leaved clover
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Grassy areas, disturbed areas and roadsides. Widespread. Rarely on the coast and ranges.
Notes
Introduced annual herb to 0.6 m tall. Calyx with spiny teeth, and spreading at the seeding stage. Stems moderately hairy. Leaves alternating up the stems, compound, with 3 leaflets, each 2-7 cm long, 2-5 mm wide, margins entire, surfaces appressed-hairy, tips pointed to blunt, stipules many-veined and partly fused to the stalks. Flowers in many-flowered cylindrical or conical heads 3-10 cm long at the tops of the stems. Each flower 8-13 mm long, pea shaped, with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel, pink to purple, or white. Flower clusters form a burr when in seed.
Varieties not recognised in NSW.
PlantNET description (as Trifolium angustifolium): http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Trifolium~angustifolium (accessed 3 May 2021)
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