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Greying Clover

Trifolium canescens

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 Russia.January 0, February 0, March 0, April 0, May 2, June 68, July 51, August 27, September 3, October 1, November 0, December 0.
Russia152
Krasnodar Krai49
Karachay-Cherkessia37
Dagestan21
Adygea15
Kabardino-Balkaria15
North Ossetia–Alania9
Chechnya3
Ingushetia2
Turkey1

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