Trifolium campestre




Family Fabaceae (alt. Leguminosae)
Scientific name Trifolium campestre Schreber
Synonyms Amarenus agrarius (L.) C. Presl var. campestris (Schreber) C. Presl; Chrysaspis campestris (Schreber) Desvaux; Trifolium agrarium L. var. campestre (Schreber) Beck; Trifolium agrarium L. var. pseudoprocumbens (C. C. Gmelin) J. Lloyd; Trifolium campestre Schreber var. genuinum Rouy; Trifolium campestre Schreber var. maius Hayek; Trifolium campestre Schreber var. minus (Koch) Hayek; Trifolium campestre Schreber var. pseudoprocumbens (C. C. Gmelin) Ascherson & Graebner; Trifolium erythranthum Halacsy; Trifolium glaucescens Haussknecht; Trifolium karatavicum Pavlov; Trifolium lupulinum Guildenstern ex Ledebour; Trifolium minimum W. P. C. Barton; Trifolium procumbens L.; Trifolium procumbens L. var. campestre (Schreber) Seringe; Trifolium procumbens L. var. maius Koch; Trifolium procumbens L. var. minus Koch; Trifolium pseudoprocumbens C. C. Gmelin; Trifolium pumilum Hossain; Trifolium schreberi Jordan ex Reuter; Trifolium thionanthum Haussknecht
Common name (Japanese common name) kusudama tume-kusa [flower balls packing weed], hop tume-kusa [hop packing weed]
(English common name) big hop clover, field clover, feld klee, large hop clover, lesser hop clover, low hop clover, low hop trefoil, small hop clover
Distribution (Japan) Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, Okinawa
(Other nations) [native] Russia, Afghanistan, Caucasus, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Cyprus, Europe, Egypt, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Sudan, Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia (naturalaized in Eurasia, Australia, North America)
Chromosomal number 2n=14
Description Plants electing or creeping 5-30cm. Leaves 3 leaflets each 8-15mm length, 5-8mm width. Flowers yellow inflorescences 1-1.5cm length, flowering in May to July. Annual plants.
Reference Trifolium campestre Schreb.
Trifolium campestre Schreb.
Trifolium campestre Schreb.
Note Naturalized plants (first discovered at Yokohama in 1943).



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