Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Trifolium arvense var. arvense

Flower head and leaf. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, south west of Yass

Leaf. Photographer Valter Jacinto, Portugal

Line drawing. USDA NRCS PLANTS database. Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. Vol. 2: 355.

Common name

Haresfoot clover

Family

Fabaceae 

Where found

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

Notes

Introduced annual herb to 0.4 m tall. Calyx teeth blunt. Stems hairy. Leaves alternating up the stems, compound, with 3 leaflets, each 0.5-2 cm long, 2-5 mm wide, surfaces hairy, margins entire, tips blunt notched, or toothed, and with a short mucro, stipules membranous. Flowers in furry many-flowered oval to cylindrical heads 10-30 mm long. Individual flowers 3-6 mm long, pea-shaped, with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel, white to pink or mauve, persistent at the seeding stage. Flowers spring-summer.

Varieties not recognised in NSW.

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