Trifolium hybridum
(Alsike Clover)
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| Scientific Name | Trifolium hybridum | USDA PLANTS Symbol | TRHY |
| Common Name | Alsike Clover | ITIS Taxonomic Serial No. | 26261 |
| Family | Fabaceae (Pea) | SEINet Reference |
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| Description |
Life zones and habitat: Plains to subalpine (4500 to 10500 ft.); various types of moist soils in meadows, pastures, abandoned fields, and roadsides; widespread. Plant: Short-lived, spreading to erect perennial 4 to 24 inches tall; slender, leafless stems. Leaves: Composite leaves on a stalk up to 3 inches long palmately divided into 3 elliptic to obovate leaflets 3/8 to 1-1/8 inches long, hairless with very finely serrated sharp teeth along the edges. Inflorescence: Single round flower head on a 1 to 3 inch erect or decumbent stalk arising from a leaf axil; heads about 3/4-inch across, densely packed with tiny pea-shaped flowers, each with sharply pointed upward curved banner with small lateral wings just below and keel in the throat; light pink to white flowers, turning darker pink with age; white, short, hairless calyx tube with green teeth. Bloom Period: May to October. References: "Flora of Colorado" by Jennifer Ackerfield, SW Colorado Wildflowers and Minnesota Wildflowers |
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Colorado Status: Introduced |
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