two-fork clover
Trifolium amoenum
Member of
clovers (genus Trifolium)
legume family (family Fabaceae)
dicots (class Magnoliopsida)
flowering plants (subphylum Angiospermae)
CalPhotos
- resembles tomcat clover, but the head is much denser with flowers
- hairy
- Leaflets: 3, palmate, widely obovate
- Bracts: unknown
- Inflorescence: head, ovate to spheric; sessile [CalPhotos does not consistently show this] above 1–2 ± reduced leaves (with 3 leaflets each)
- Calyx: 10–12 mm, slender, plumose
- Corolla: 12–16 mm, purple, tips white
- for all others in this section below, the corolla is one-colored, red-purple or pink
- rare
Chris’s observations: none
Not all sites include this taxon:
Bay Area species:
iNaturalist
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Calflora
