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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Trifolium incarnatum
FAMILY
Fabaceae
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Learn more about Crimson Clover from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Trifolium incarnatum
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Trifolium incarnatum
SYNONYMOUS WITH Native & naturalized Leguminosae (Fabaceae) of the US (Isely, 1998)
Trifolium incarnatum
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-14-004:
Trifolium incarnatum FAMILY Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Trifolium incarnatum
COMMON NAME:
Crimson Clover
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_trin3_001_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm0404zc_12
April Greenville County SC
Roadside
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JK Marlow jkm120405_569
April Pickens County SC
Dense heads of crimson flowers, first ovoid, then cylindrical, up to 3" long, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
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JK Marlow jkm120405_571
April Pickens County SC
Flower heads are not subtended by leaves or expanded stipules, per Weakley's Flora.
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JK Marlow jkm120405_574
April Pickens County SC
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Sam Pratt sbp060221_0568
June Spartanburg County SC
in cultivation
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Sam Pratt sbp060221_0568b
June Spartanburg County SC
in cultivation
Calyx densely tawny villous, lobes at first erect but later wide-spreading, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Trifolium incarnatum
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Trifolium incarnatum
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Trifolium incarnatum
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Native & naturalized Leguminosae (Fabaceae) of the US (Isely, 1998)
Trifolium incarnatum
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-14-004:
Trifolium incarnatum
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Trifolium incarnatum
1538
Forb
Annual
Habitat: Fields, disturbed areas, per Weakley's Flora
Non-native: Europe
Common (uncommon in Mountains, uncommon in GA Coastal Plain)
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
This plant may be causing problems in natural areas outside its native range, according to authorities such as:
LEAVES:
Palmately compound: 3 leaflets
Mostly alternate
Stipules conspicuous, persistent, & adnate to the petiole
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Red
Bilaterally symmetrical
5-parted papilionaceous corolla
Superior ovary
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Legume
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers (Nelson, 2006) p211
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 1st ed. (Porcher & Rayner, 2001) p380
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 2nd ed. (McMillan, Porcher, Rayner, & White; 2022) p535
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p345
- Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry (Porcher, 1995) p200
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p034
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p208
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p142
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p180
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p086
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