Felt clover

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Felt clover
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Felt clover ( Trifolium tomentosum )

Systematics
Order : Fabales (Fabales)
Family : Legumes (Fabaceae)
Subfamily : Butterflies (Faboideae)
Genre : Clover ( trifolium )
Section : Vesicaria
Type : Felt clover
Scientific name
Trifolium tomentosum
L.

The felt clover ( Trifolium tomentosum ) is a species of the genus Klee ( Trifolium ) in the legume family (Fabaceae).

Fruit cluster

features

The felt clover is an annual plant that reaches heights of 5 to 25 centimeters. He is prostrate and bald. The stems are richly branched. The leaves are stalked and threefold. The leaflets are egg-shaped, sharply toothed, hairy on the underside and glabrous on the top, the nerves are clearly visible. The flowers are pink, small, more or less sitting and turned so that the flag points down and the boat up. The flowers are arranged in axillary, short-stalked, spherical and 6 to 9 millimeter large flower heads, at the fruiting time these are vesicularly enlarged to 8 to 15 millimeters. The flag measures 3 to 4 millimeters. The calyx measures 2 to 3 millimeters, is double-lipped, has teeth up to 1 millimeter long and a white felt tube. During the fruiting season, the teeth are barely visible and his upper lip is very puffed up and veined like a network. The pod is membranous and lonely.

Flowering time is from March to April.

The number of chromosomes is 2n = 16.

Occurrence

The felt clover occurs in the Mediterranean region , on the Canaries and in Southwest Asia on grasslands and roadsides at altitudes of up to 1500 meters.

literature

  • Ehrentraud Bayer, Karl-Peter Buttler , Xaver Finkenzeller, Jürke Grau: Plants of the Mediterranean (The Colored Nature Guide). Mosaik Verlag GmbH, Munich 1986.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Trifolium tomentosum at Tropicos.org. In: IPCN Chromosome Reports . Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis

Web links

Commons : Felt clover ( Trifolium tomentosum )  - Collection of images, videos, and audio files
  • Thomas Meyer, Michael Hassler: Mediterranean flora. [1]