White clover
(trifólium repens)
Fabáceae (Leguminósae)
-no endangered genus-
- height: 10-20 cm
- flowering season: May to October
- spherical blooms are whitish or yellowish and 0.7-1 cm long
- meadows which are rich in nutrients up to 2,300 m above sea level
- herbaceously creeping form of growth
White clover originating from Eurasia and North Africa is to be found all over the world and often supplements mixtures of grasses. Today trifolium repens is cultivated everywhere as a range plant and for field hay curing or in order to obtain green fodder. Trifolium pallescens differs from the type described above in its stems which are not radicant and its yellowish white blooms.
trifólium repens (white clover)