Trifolium lupinaster

Family: Fabaceae Genus: Trifolium Species: lupinaster

Synonyms: Trifolium lupinaster var. alpinum, Trifolium lupinaster subsp. popovii, Lupinaster pentaphyllus, Lupinaster pentaphyllus subsp. albiflorus, Lupinaster albens, Lupinaster pacificus, Lupinaster pentaphyllus subsp. angustifolius, Trifolium lupinaster subsp. pacificum, Trifolium lupinaster var. pumilum, Lupinaster albus, Lupinaster popovii, Trifolium lupinaster var. pygmaeum, Trifolium lupinaster f. purpureum, Trifolium spryginii, Trifolium ciswolgense, Lupinaster romanicus, Lupinaster pentaphyllus var. albiflorus, Trifolium lupinaster f. alpinum, Trifolium albens, Trifolium popovii, Trifolium lupinaster f. angustifolium, Lupinaster litwinowii, Trifolium dimidiatum, Trifolium lupinaster var. albiflorum, Trifolium lupinaster f. albiflorum, Lupinaster baicalensis, Lupinaster purpurascens, Trifolium lupinaster var. purpurascens, Trifolium lupinaster var. oblongifolium, Trifolium baicalense, Pentaphyllon lupinaster, Pentaphyllon ammani, Trifolium angustifolium, Trifolium litwinowii, Trifolium lupinastrum, Trifolium pacificum, Neesia lupinaster, Lupinaster pentaphyllus subsp. albus, Trifolium romanicum

Botanical Description

Trifolium lupinaster, the lupine clover or five-leaved clover, is a herbaceous perennial in the Fabaceae growing 20–60 cm tall from a stout, woody rootstock. Unlike most clovers, its leaves are typically digitate with five (sometimes three to nine) narrowly elliptic to lanceolate leaflets 2–6 cm long, finely serrate at the margins and prominently veined; stipules are linear-lanceolate and adnate to the petiole. Stems are erect, simple or sparingly branched, and finely pubescent above. The inflorescence is a dense terminal head or short raceme of 10–30 papilionaceous flowers, each 12–18 mm long, ranging from pink and purple to white; the calyx is tubular with subequal lobes. Fruit is a small, few-seeded legume enclosed by the persistent calyx. It occupies meadows, forest edges, and open slopes across temperate Eurasia from eastern Europe through Siberia to the Russian Far East, Mongolia, Korea, and northern Japan, flowering in summer.

Native Region: Altay, Amur, Baltic States, Belarus, Buryatiya, Central European Rus, China North-Central, Chita, Czechoslovakia, East European Russia, Inner Mongolia, Irkutsk, Japan, Kazakhstan, Khabarovsk, Kirgizstan, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Kuril Is., Manchuria, Mongolia, North European Russi, Poland, Primorye, Romania, Sakhalin, South European Russi, Tuva, Ukraine, West Siberia, Xinjiang, Yakutskiya

Cultural & Historical Context

Traditional American Uses

None Documented

Chemistry & External Identifiers

Trefle ID

52213

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