Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
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 keel, calyx 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)
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