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Purple Clover

Trifolium purpureum

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist. — (c) hatzvischool, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Israel.

Israel	254
France	98
Occitanie	96
Turkey	87
Northern District	79
Greece	78
Jerusalem District	64
Macedonia-Thrace	52
Haifa	50
Central District	40

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Group and habits

Crop wild relativeListed as a crop wild relative or crop gene source by a harvested source.Kew World Checklist of Useful Plant Species
Forb or herb growth formListed by a harvested source as having a forb or herbaceous growth form.USDA PLANTS Characteristics
Annual plantListed by a harvested source as having an annual life duration.USDA PLANTS Characteristics
Nitrogen fixingDescends from a plant lineage commonly associated with nitrogen-fixing symbioses.Inferred from its group

Classification

Kingdom	Plants · Plantae
Phylum	Vascular Plants · Tracheophyta
Class	Dicots · Magnoliopsida
Order	Legumes, Milkworts, and Allies · Fabales
Family	Legumes · Fabaceae
Genus	clovers · Trifolium

Sources

Names, taxonomy and observation counts: www.inaturalist.org
Photos and recordings: the creator and source are on each one.
Traits: Kew World Checklist of Useful Plant Species (CC BY 4.0)
Traits: USDA PLANTS Characteristics (U.S. Government work / public domain)
How much to rely on each source

Remember the name next time.

Practise Purple Clover with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.

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