Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Trifolium suffocatum
Common name
Suffocated Clover
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Naturalised. Sydney area and Western Slopes. Occasionally elsewhere.
Notes
Introduced annual herb, prostrate or sprawling. Calyx teeth blunt. Stems to about 10 cm long, sometimes almost absent, hairless or sparsely hairy. Leaves alternating along the stems, compound, with 3 leaflets, each 0.3–1.2 cm long, 2–10 mm wide, hairless, margins finely toothed, tips notched; stipules largely obscuring the inflorescence, and membranous. Flower clusters mostly 1–15-flowered, 3–7 mm long, 5–8 mm wide, stalkless, individual flowers stalkless or almost stalkless. Individual flowers white, 3–4 mm long, pea shaped, with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel, persistent at the seeding stage. Flowers mainly Oct.–Dec.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Trifolium~suffocatum (accessed 3 May 2021)
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