*Trifolium campestre Schreber. Subgenus: Chronosemium. Common name: Hop Clover. Phenology: Feb-Oct. Habitat: Roadsides, fields, lawns, disturbed areas. Distribution: Native of Eurasia.
Origin/Endemic status: Eurasia
Synonymy ⓘ: = Ar, C, Can, FNA11.2, GrPl, Il, K4, Mi, Mo3, NcTx, NE, NY, Pa, RAB, SE3, Tn, Tx, Va, W, WH3, WV, Isely (1998); = Trifolium procumbens L. — F, G, S, S13, Tat, misapplied. Basionym: Trifolium campestre Schreb. 1804
Links to other floras: = Trifolium campestre - FNA11.2
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Heliophily ⓘ: 9
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Horticultural Information
Intro: Erect to sprawling annual of roadsides, fields, lawns and disturbed areas. Native of Eurasia.
Stems: Stems branched, hairy.
Leaves: Leaves alternate, on petioles with a pair of stipules at the base, pinnately divided into 3 oval leaflets, each of which is about 1/2 in. long, finely toothed and smooth; the center leaflet is on a longer stalk.
Inforescence:
Flowers: Flowers in short-cylindric heads, about 1/2 in. wide, borne on hairy stalks from leaf axils; yellow; tiny; bilaterally symmetric and with typical pea-flower shape, the "banner" petal with conspicuous grooves or veins.
Fruits: Fruit a tiny, 1-seeded pod.
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Height: 2-12 in.
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description: Erect to sprawling annual of roadsides, fields, lawns and disturbed areas. Native of Eurasia.
stems: Stems branched, hairy.
leaves: Leaves alternate, on petioles with a pair of stipules at the base, pinnately divided into 3 oval leaflets, each of which is about 1/2 in. long, finely toothed and smooth; the center leaflet is on a longer stalk.
inflorescence:
flowers: Flowers in short-cylindric heads, about 1/2 in. wide, borne on hairy stalks from leaf axils; yellow; tiny; bilaterally symmetric and with typical pea-flower shape, the "banner" petal with conspicuous grooves or veins.
fruits: Fruit a tiny, 1-seeded pod.
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