Stone clover

Trifolium arvense

Family: Fabaceae Genus: Trifolium Species: arvense

Synonyms: Trifolium brachyodon, Trifolium brittingeri, Trifolium pectinatum, Trifolium arvense var. gracile, Trifolium arvense var. angustifolium, Trifolium longisetum, Trifolium gracile, Trifolium arvense subsp. longisetosum, Trifolium arenivagum, Trifolium arvense var. littorale, Trifolium arvense subsp. preslianum, Trifolium sabuletorum, Trifolium arvense var. sabuletorum, Trifolium agrestinum subsp. littorale, Trifolium arvense var. cyrenaicum, Trifolium arvense var. longisetum, Trifolium eriocephalum, Trifolium arvense var. glabrum, Trifolium arvense var. maritimum, Trifolium arvense var. australe, Trifolium arvense var. crassicaule, Trifolium arvense var. aetnense, Trifolium arvense var. perpusillum, Trifolium arvense var. nanum, Trifolium rubellum, Trifolium capitellatum var. elatius, Trifolium arvense subsp. gracile, Trifolium lagopus, Trifolium ceretanum, Trifolium arvense var. latifolium, Trifolium arvense subsp. agrestinum, Trifolium arvense var. arenivagum, Trifolium arvicola, Trifolium agrestinum subsp. lagopinum, Trifolium arvense var. strictior, Trifolium arvense var. ballii, Trifolium arvense var. lagopinum, Trifolium arvense var. exiguum, Trifolium arvense subsp. brittingeri, Trifolium arvense f. komlodiae, Trifolium arvense var. brachyodon, Trifolium arvense subsp. longisetum, Trifolium littorale, Trifolium arvense var. preslianum, Trifolium preslianum, Trifolium lagopinum, Trifolium capitellatum, Trifolium arvense var. capitatum, Trifolium arvense var. alopecuroides, Trifolium agrestinum, Trifolium cyrenaicum, Trifolium villosum, Trifolium arvense var. rubellum

Stone clover (en)

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Botanical Description

Trifolium arvense, the hare's-foot clover, is a soft, downy annual herb of the family Fabaceae growing 5 to 30 cm tall, with slender, erect, branching stems clothed in silky hairs. The leaves are trifoliate with narrow, oblong leaflets. Its most distinctive feature is the flower head: a dense, cylindrical to ovoid, fluffy spike covered in long pale pink to greyish hairs, the tiny whitish pea flowers almost hidden among the feathery calyx teeth, so that each head resembles a soft hare's foot. It flowers through summer into autumn. Native to Europe, North Africa and western Asia and widely naturalised, hare's-foot clover grows on dry, sandy and gravelly soils in fields, dunes, heaths, roadsides and waste ground.

Native Region: Albania, Algeria, Austria, Azores, Baleares, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canary Is., Central European Rus, Corse, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Djibouti, East Aegean Is., East European Russia, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kriti, Krym, Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Madeira, Morocco, Netherlands, North Caucasus, North European Russi, Northwest European R, Norway, Palestine, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sardegna, Sicilia, South European Russi, Spain, Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, West Siberia, Yugoslavia

Cultural & Historical Context

Traditional American Uses

None Documented

Chemistry & External Identifiers

Trefle ID

51601

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