Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Trifolium fragiferum var. fragiferum
Common name
Strawberry clover
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Moist disturbed sites and roadsides. Mostly south of the area covered by this key. Uncommon. Round Albury. ACT. Occasionally elewhere.
Notes
Introduced prostrate or tufted perennial herb, stems to 50 cm long, often rooting at the nodes. Calyx teeth spiny, and erect to curved down at the seeding stage. Leaflet margins toothed, the teeth with spiny points. Stems sparsely hairy to hairless. Leaves alternating along the stems, compound, with 3 leaflets, each 0.5-3 cm long, 3-18 mm wide, somewhat glaucous, hairless, or hairy along the nerves and margins, prominently veined particularly near the margins, margins toothed, the teeth with spiny points, tips blunt or rounded with a small notch; stipules membranous. Flower heads 8-20 mm long, globular to oval or cup-shaped, 10-30 flowered. Individual flowers 6-8 mm long, pea shaped, with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel, white or pink, persistent at the seeding stage. Flowers mainly Nov.–Apr.
Varieties not recognised in NSW.
PlantNET description (as Trifolium fragiferum): http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Trifolium~fragiferum (accessed 3 May 2021)
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