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Red Trefoil

Trifolium rubens

Easily confused with

Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.

Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 23, February 17, March 27, April 42, May 60, June 66, July 70, August 61, September 45, October 33, November 18, December 14.
United States480
Alaska476
France314
Italy246
Nord-Ovest144
Germany137
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes105
Austria101
Switzerland88
Spain86

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
  • Nitrogen fixingDescends from a plant lineage commonly associated with nitrogen-fixing symbioses.Inferred from its group

Classification

KingdomPlants · Plantae
PhylumVascular Plants · Tracheophyta
ClassDicots · Magnoliopsida
OrderLegumes, Milkworts, and Allies · Fabales
FamilyLegumes · Fabaceae
Genusclovers · Trifolium

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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