Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Trifolium repens var. repens
Common name
White clover
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Disturbed sites, gardens, grassy areas, and moist gullies. A common lawn weed. Widespread.
Notes
Introduced prostrate perennial herb, rooting at the nodes, branches to 30 cm long. Calyx tube bell-shaped, teeth spiny. Stems slightly hairy or hairless. Leaves alternating along the stems, compound, with 3 leaflets, each 0.5-4 cm long, 10-30 mm wide, hairless, prominently veined, often with a pale crescent on the upper surface, margins finely toothed, tips often notched; stipules membranous, sheathing. In moist sites leaflets to 4 cm long, in drier places 0.5-0.8 cm long. Flower heads globular or loose, 15–35 mm long, 15-35 mm in diameter, more than 20-flowered. Individual flowers white yellow, or pink, 4-13 mm long, pea shaped, with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel, persistent in the seeding stage. Flowers mainly Aug.–Feb.
Varieties not recognised in NSW.
PlantNET description (as Trifolium repens): http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Trifolium~repens (accessed 3 May 2021)
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