Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Trifolium incarnatum var. incarnatum
Common name
Crimson clover
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Grassy areas and disturbed sites. ACT and Queanbeyan. Rarely elsewhere.
Notes
Introduced annual herb to 0.5 m tall. Calyx teeth spiny, and spreading at the seeding stage. Stems moderately hairy to hairy. Leaves alternating up the stems, compound, with 3 leaflets, each 1-2.8 cm long, 10-20 mm wide, appressed-hairy, finely toothed on the margins of the upper part of the leaves, tips rounded or rounded with a small notch; stipules membranous, veined, and hairy. Flower heads 75-125 flowered, oval to cylindrical, 20-60 mm long. Individual flowers red to purple, to 13 mm long, pea shaped, with 5 petals, two joined together to form the keel. Flowers mainly Oct-Dec.
Varieties not recognised in NSW.
PlantNET description (as Trifolium incarnatum): http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Trifolium~incarnatum (accessed 3 May 2021)
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