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Photographer: Flora.cyberia
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Family Fabaceae
Trifolium arvense L.
rabbit-foot clover
Trifolium: from tres for three; folium for leaves
arvense: of planted fields
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| Status: | Introduced - naturalized |
| Plant: | erect, annual, 4"-16" tall forb with many branches; stems softly hairy |
| Flower: | whitish to pink, 5-parted, 1/4" long, stalkless, calyx 2-lipped; inflorescence a 1" dense, fuzzy, oval to cylindrical, stalked head; blooms May-Sept. |
| Leaf: | 3-parted with narrowly-oblong leaflets, stalks 1/3" long |
| Habitat: | dry; disturbed sites; in sandy, light soil |
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