Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Trifolium cernuum
Common name
Drooping-flower Clover
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Weed. Widespread but not common.
Notes
Introduced annual herb, often prostrate. Stems to 0.4 m long, hairless. Calyx teeth spiny, and erect at the seeding stage. Leaves alternating along the stems, compound, with 3 leaflets, each 0.4–1.5 cm long, 3–12 mm wide, hairless, margins finely toothed, tips squared off or notched; stipules white-membranous. Flowers in 8–20-flowered umbels or round heads about 10 mm long and wide, stalks curving down at the pod stage. Individual flowers pink, 4–5 mm long, pea-shaped, with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel, persistent at the seeding stage. Standard petal spoon-shaped, deeply notched. Flowers mainly Sep.–Jan.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Trifolium~cernuum (accessed 3 May 2021)
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