Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Trifolium scabrum
Common name
Rough Clover
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Naturalised. Western Slopes. Sometimes elsewhere.
Notes
Introduced annual herb to 0.35 m high or prostrate. Calyx teeth spiny and erect or only the lower tooth curved down at the seeding stage. Stems striate, zig-zaggy, moderately hairy. Leaves alternating along the stems, compound, with 3 leaflets, each 0.5–1.5 cm long, 3–6 mm wide, appressed-hairy on both surfaces, lateral veins mostly curved back near the margins, margins with minute teeth, tips blunt to rounded with a small notch; stipules membranous, hairy, and green- or purple-veined. Flower heads oval, 7–20 mm long, 7–20 mm wide, few to many-flowered. Individual flowers white or pink, 4-7 mm long, pea shaped, with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel, falling early. Calyces surrounding the individual pods at the seeding stage. Flowers mainly Sep.–Dec.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Trifolium~scabrum (accessed 3 May 2021)
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