Trifolium depauperatum

Trifolium depauperatum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Faboideae
Tribe: Trifolieae
Genus: Trifolium
Species: T. depauperatum
Binomial name
Trifolium depauperatum

Trifolium depauperatum is a species of clover known by the common names cowbag clover,[1] poverty clover,[2] and balloon sack clover.

Distribution

The plant is native to western North America from British Columbia to California, as well as towestern South America in Peru and Chile. It is a common plant of many types of habitat, including coastal prairie and mixed evergreen forest,.[3]

Description

Trifolium depauperatum is a small annual herb growing upright or decumbent in form. The leaves are made up of oval leaflets up to 2 centimeters long which are smooth, toothed, lobed, or blunt-tipped. The inflorescence is a head of flowers up to 1.5 centimeters long. The flower has a pinkish purple white-tipped corolla up to a centimeter long. It becomes inflated as the fruit developed.

Subspecies

Trifolium depauperatum has several varieties, which can include:

  • Trifolium depauperatum var. amplectens — Balloon sack clover, Pale bladder clover.[4]
  • Trifolium depauperatum var. depauperatum — Cowbag clover.[5]
  • Trifolium depauperatum var. hydrophilum
  • Trifolium depauperatum var. truncatum — Dwarf sack clover.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Trifolium depauperatum". Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA. Retrieved 15 December 2015.
  2. ↑ "BSBI List 2007". Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland. Archived from the original (xls) on 2015-01-25. Retrieved 2014-10-17.
  3. ↑ Calflora: Trifolium depauperatum
  4. ↑ Calflora: Trifolium depauperatum var. amplectens
  5. ↑ Calflora: Trifolium depauperatum var. depauperatum
  6. ↑ Calflora: Trifolium depauperatum var. truncatum
  • Calflora Database: Trifolium depauperatum (Cowbag clover, Dwarf sack clover, Pale sack clover)
  • Jepson Manual eFlora (TJM2) treatment of Trifolium depauperatum
  • "Trifolium depauperatum". Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). Agricultural Research Service (ARS), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).
  • UC CalPhotos gallery: Trifolium depauperatum


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