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Trifolium

not marked as a favorite taxon *Trifolium glomeratum Linnaeus. Common name: Cluster Clover. Phenology: May-Jun. Habitat: Wool waste, other disturbed areas. Distribution: Native of Mediterranean region, rarely escaped in Alabama, Florida, and South Carolina, and a waif in e. Texas (Kartesz 2022; Vincent & Gillett 2023). Trifolium glomeratum was collected twice in Texas historically from cultivated and unintentionally introduced plants. A Freestone Co. specimen (Smith s.n., 1953, SMU) was described as growing “in planting of yellow hop clover” and “may have been introduced with hop clover seed from Australia.” A Jefferson Co. specimen (Wolff s.n., 1947, BRIT) is described as “introduced on Rice Experiment Station, Beaumont.” Vincent and Gillett (2023) mapped T. glomeratum in Texas probably based on these cultivated specimens, but it has apparently not naturalized in the state.

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Subgenus: Trifolium. Section: Trifoliastrum.

Origin/Endemic status: Mediterranean Europe and Africa

Synonymy ⓘ: = Can, FNA11.2, K1, K4, NE, NS, POWO, S, SE3, Isely (1998); = n/a — RAB. Basionym: Trifolium glomeratum L. 1753

Links to other floras: = Trifolium glomeratum - FNA11.2

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