Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Trifolium dubium
Common name
Yellow suckling clover
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Woodland, grassy areas, lawns, gardens, and disturbed sites. Widespread.
Notes
Introduced annual herb to 0.4 m tall or sprawling. Calyx teeth spiiny, and erect at the seeding stage. Stems sparsely hairy to hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, compound, with 3 leaflets, each 0.4-1.3 cm long, 4-8 mm wide, virtually hairless, margins finely toothed, tips rounded or rounded with a small notch; stipules leafy, and fused to the base of the stalks. Flower heads 6–7 mm long, 8–9 mm in diameter, of 3-20 flowers. Individual flowers about 4 mm long, pea shaped, with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel, yellow, persistent at the seeding stage, and turning brown. Flowers mainly Sep.–Jan.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Trifolium~dubium (accessed 3 May 2021)
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