Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Fabales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Trifolium arvense
FAMILY
Fabaceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Check out EDDMapS.org to see where this has been reported.
Learn more about Rabbitfoot Clover from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Trifolium arvense
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-14-003:
Trifolium arvense
FAMILY
Fabaceae
COMMON NAME:
Rabbitfoot Clover
To see larger pictures, click or hover over the thumbnails.
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_trar4_001_lvd
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Keith Bradley kab_t_arvense_2157
March Lexington County SC
Furry, oblong, grayish-pink or grayish-white flower heads, per Newcomb's Wildflower Guide.
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Roxanna Martin rlm52310_297
May Spartanburg County SC
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Roxanna Martin rlm53010_803
May Spartanburg County SC
Long soft hairs of calyxes all but conceal tiny pink or white flowers, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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Roxanna Martin rlm53010_804
May Spartanburg County SC
Has a fuzzy, long head of tiny, grayish-pink flowers, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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Roxanna Martin rlm53010_805
May Spartanburg County SC
Flower heads are not subtended by leaves or expanded stipules, per Weakley's Flora.
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JK Marlow jkm170603_189
June Hart County GA
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JK Marlow jkm210624_1520
June Spartanburg County SC
Leaflets are very narrowly oblanceolate, not more than 3/4" long, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
COMPARE
leaves that are trifoliolate and palmately compound
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JK Marlow s000604_c
June Greenville County SC
Field
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Trifolium arvense
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Trifolium arvense
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-14-003:
Trifolium arvense
FAMILY
Fabaceae
1535
Forb
Winter annual
Non-native: Mediterranean region
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Common (uncommon in GA Coastal Plain)
Look for it in disturbed areas, shale barrens, per Weakley's Flora
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,
or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
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
Rose/Pinkish/White
Bilaterally symmetrical
5-parted papilionaceous corolla
Superior ovary
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Legume
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC p380
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide p060
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p088
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p032
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p143
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p181
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p086
- Weeds of Southern Turfgrasses p145