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Hairy Trefoil

Trifolium cherleri

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 Spain.January 0, February 0, March 7, April 214, May 368, June 98, July 11, August 2, September 0, October 1, November 1, December 0.
Spain702
Comunidad de Madrid557
Portugal103
Andalucía75
France74
Italy53
Cataluña/Catalunya32
Corse28
Occitanie26
Greece24

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