Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Trifolium striatum
Common name
Knotted clover
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Grassy areas and disturbed sites. Widespread. Rare on the coast and ranges.
Notes
Introduced annual herb to 0.6 m tall or spreading. Calyx teeth spiny, erect or slightly spreading at the seeding stage. Stems sparsely to densely hairy. Leaves alternating up the stems, compound, with 3 leaflets, each 0.3-2.5 cm long, 1.5-13 mm wide, appressed-hairy on both surfaces, lateral veins mostly straight near the margins, upper margin with minute teeth, tips with a minute mucro, and blunt to rounded with a small notch; stipules submembranous, appressed-hairy, green-veined, fused to the stalks for up to half their length. Flower heads oval to cylindrical, 6-20 mm long, 8–15 mm wide, 20-40-flowered. Individual flowers pink, 5-7 mm long, pea shaped, with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel, persistent at the seeding stage. Flowers mainly Oct.–Jan. Calyces surrounding the indiviual pods at the seeding stage.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Trifolium~striatum (accessed 3 May 2021)
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