Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Trifolium tomentosum var. tomentosum
Common name
Woolly Clover
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Naturalised. Sydney area, Canberra, and Western Slopes. Occasionally elsewhere.
Notes
Introduced annual herb to 0.6 m high or sprawling to prostrate. Calyx teeth blunt. Stems cylindrical or furrowed, and hairless to sparsely hairy. Leaves alternating up the stems, compound, with 3 leaflets, each 0.4–1.5 cm long, 2–10 mm wide, wholly hairless or sparsely hairy on the lower surface, margins toothed, tips rounded, squared off, or rounded with a small notch; stipules membranous, joined together in the lower half. Flower heads many-flowered, 6–12 mm long, 5–8 mm wide. Individual flowers pink, 3–6 mm long, pea shaped, with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel, falling early. Calyces of individual flowers at first about 3.5 mm long, later much inflated at the pod stage, and woolly-hairy to hairless. Flowers Sep.–Nov.
Varieties not recognised in NSW.
PlantNET description (as Trifolium tomentosum): http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Trifolium~tomentosum (accessed 3 May 2021)
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