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Learn more about Red Clover from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Fabales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Trifolium pratense
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Trifolium pratense
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-14-005:
Trifolium pratense
FAMILY
Fabaceae
COMMON NAME:
Red Clover
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_trpr2_001_lvd
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide pnd_trpr2_005_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm190425_7772
April Greenville County SC
Flowers are tiny, pink, sessile, and borne in a round head 1" across, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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JK Marlow jkm0205b_09a
May Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm140525_204b
May Henderson County NC
Petals 1.2-1.8cm long, with the standard longer than wings or keel, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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JK Marlow jkm190518_8433
May Greenville County SC
The color of these particular flowers was intense.
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JK Marlow jkm190518_8435
May Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm190518_8479
May Greenville County SC
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Roxanna Martin rlm51008_153
May Spartanburg County SC
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Roxanna Martin rlm5810_198
May Spartanburg County SC
Short-lived perennial with numerous appressed-hairy stems, per Wildflowers of Tennessee.
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JK Marlow jkm120626_301
June Greenville County SC
Heads subtended by enlarged stipules and/or opposite or subopposite leaves, per Weakley's Flora.
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JK Marlow jkm120626_303
June Greenville County SC
Lanceolate to elliptical leaflets, each with a prominent pale green "V", per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
COMPARE
leaves that are trifoliolate and palmately compound
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JK Marlow jkm120626_305
June Greenville County SC
Stems numerous, glabrous or more commonly pilose to villous, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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JK Marlow jkm150607_278
June McDowell County? NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
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JK Marlow jkm150607_280
June McDowell County? NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
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JK Marlow jkm120703_414
July Greenville County SC
Its flowers are actually rose-purple (occasionally white) [not red], per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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JK Marlow jkm120703_414b
July Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm120703_422
July Greenville County SC
Stems numerous from crown, erect or ascending, stout, per Flora of North America.
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Roxanna Martin rlm71610_227
July Spartanburg County SC
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Roxanna Martin rlm71909_166
July Spartanburg County SC
Legume ovoid-oblong, circumscissile, 1-seeded, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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JK Marlow jkm060813_128
August Haywood County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
Probably the best-known clover of the southern mountains, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.