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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Fabales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Trifolium arvense   FAMILY Fabaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Trifolium arvense   FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Trifolium arvense

SYNONYMOUS WITH Native & naturalized Leguminosae (Fabaceae) of the US (Isely, 1998)

Trifolium arvense

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-14-003:

Trifolium arvense   FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Trifolium arvense

 

COMMON NAME:
Rabbitfoot Clover


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image of Trifolium arvense, Rabbitfoot Clover

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_trar4_001_lvd

        

image of Trifolium arvense, Rabbitfoot Clover

Keith Bradley    kab_t_arvense_2157

March    Lexington County    SC

Furry, oblong, grayish-pink or grayish-white flower heads, per Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977).

image of Trifolium arvense, Rabbitfoot Clover

Roxanna Martin    rlm52310_297

May    Spartanburg County    SC

image of Trifolium arvense, Rabbitfoot Clover

Roxanna Martin    rlm53010_803

May    Spartanburg County    SC

Long soft hairs of calyxes all but conceal tiny pink or white flowers, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).

image of Trifolium arvense, Rabbitfoot Clover

Roxanna Martin    rlm53010_804

May    Spartanburg County    SC

Has a fuzzy, long head of tiny, grayish-pink flowers, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).

image of Trifolium arvense, Rabbitfoot Clover

Roxanna Martin    rlm53010_805

May    Spartanburg County    SC

Flower heads are not subtended by leaves or expanded stipules, per Weakley's Flora.

image of Trifolium arvense, Rabbitfoot Clover

JK Marlow    jkm170603_189

June    Hart County    GA

image of Trifolium arvense, Rabbitfoot Clover

JK Marlow    jkm210624_1520

June    Spartanburg County    SC

Leaflets are very narrowly oblanceolate, not more than 3/4" long, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).


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image of Trifolium arvense, Rabbitfoot Clover

JK Marlow    s000604_c

June    Greenville County    SC

Field

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Trifolium arvense   FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Trifolium arvense   FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Trifolium arvense

SYNONYMOUS WITH Native & naturalized Leguminosae (Fabaceae) of the US (Isely, 1998)
Trifolium arvense

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-14-003:
Trifolium arvense   FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Trifolium arvense

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

1535

Forb
Winter annual

Habitat: Disturbed areas, shale barrens, per Weakley's Flora

Non-native: Mediterranean region

Common (rare in GA Mountains)

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Invasive?

This plant may be causing problems in natural areas outside its native range, according to authorities such as:

 

LEAVES:
Palmately compound: 3 leaflets
Mostly alternate
Stipules conspicuous, persistent, & adnate to the petiole

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Rose/Pinkish/White
Bilaterally symmetrical
5-parted papilionaceous corolla
Superior ovary

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Legume

 

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