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Trifolium microcephalum
Pursh
Family:
Fabaceae
Small-Head Clover,
more...
smallhead clover, littlehead clover
Tracey Slotta
General Description
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Plant
: Annual; hairs generally soft, wavy; stem decumbent to erect
Leaves
: cauline, palmately compound; stipules often ± bristle-tipped; leaflets 0.8-2 cm, generally obovate, tip notched
INFLORESCENCE
: head, 7-many-flowered, often bur-like in fruit; involucre bowl-shaped, lobes ± entire
Flowers
: calyx 4-6 mm, tube 10-veined, lobes ± = or > tube, entire, unbranched, bristle-tipped; corolla 4-7 mm, pink to lavender; 9 filaments fused, 1 free
Fruit
: legume, short, plump, rupturing corolla; Seeds 1-2
Misc
: Streambanks, moist, disturbed areas, roadsides, serpentine, conifer forest; 200-2700 m.; Apr-Aug
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