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Trifolium campestre

Whanganui. Dec 2009.<br>Photographer: Colin C. Ogle, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0'>CC BY-NC</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

Wanganui.<br>Photographer: Colin C. Ogle, Date taken: 10/12/2015, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0'>CC BY-NC</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

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Common names

hop trefoil

Biostatus

Exotic

Conservation status

Not applicable

Structural class

Herbs - Dicotyledons other than Composites

Simplified description

Annual herb; stems decumbent from tap-root; leaves glabrous, trifoliate with stalk of central leaflet longer than the other two leaflets. Flower heads yellow, drying pale brown and looking like small heads of hops.

Flower colours

Yellow

Habitat

Gravel waste areas e.g. railway ballast

Detailed taxonomy

Genus

Trifolium

Family

Fabaceae

Authority

Trifolium campestre Schreb.

Endemic family

Ecology

Year naturalised

1867

Origin

Europe to W. Asia, N. Africa

Other information

Etymology

campestre: From the Latin campus ‘field, pasture’, meaning growing in pasture

NVS code

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