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Photographer: Gary Fewless
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Family Fabaceae
Trifolium aureum Pollich
golden clover, palmate hop clover, yellow hop clover
Trifolium: from tres for three; folium for leaves
aureum: Latin for "golden"
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| Status: | Introduced - naturalized |
| Plant: | erect, annual/biennial, 8"-20" tall forb with many branches; stems with close hairs |
| Flower: | yellow, 5-parted, 1/4" long, very short-stalked, keel (top petal) grooved, calyx 2-lipped; inflorescence a short cylindrical, stalked, head-like cluster from the upper leaf axils; blooms May-Sept. |
| Leaf: | palmately 3-parted; leaves stalked, all leaflets stalkless |
| Habitat: | disturbed sites |
| Notes: | Similar to black medick, Medicago lupulina, but with larger heads |
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