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Suckling Clover

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Scientific Name:Trifolium dubium
Suckling Clover plant
Suckling Clover plant
Photo: A J Brown

Status:
Native to Europe and the Middle East.

Plant Description:
Annual herb with prostrate or ascending habit. Stems 5-40 cm long, branching and sparsely hairy. Leaves are trifoliate with obovate leaflets, 4-13 mm long and 4-8 mm wide, virtually hairless, finely toothed. Stipules (leaf-like structures at the base of the leaf and flower-stalks) leafy and fused at the base of the flower-stalk.

Flowers yellow, 3-20 flowered, in hemispherical heads, 6-7 mm long and 8-9 mm wide.

Habitat:
Widespread and common weed of pastures and waste areas across Victoria. Typically a plant of fresh-water habitats but may occur on the fringes of saline swamps and flats during wetter periods.
RegionSalinity ClassWaterlogging Class
Central and Northern, Wimmera, Western, GippslandS0, *S1W0, W1, W2
*may be found on or fringing saline sites during the wetter parts of the year

Comments:
One of a number of small annual clovers found in pastures, waste ground and bordering swamps, lakes and water courses. A simple key to the more common of these species is provided (Key to common annual clovers). Other clovers, but with a perennial habit, include Strawberry Clover (Trifolium fragiferum, White Clover (Trifolium repens) and Red Clover (Trifolium pratense).

Suckling Clover photos

Leaves and stems of Suckling Clover
Leaves and stems of Suckling Clover
Photo: A J Brown
Flowers of Suckling Clover
Flowers of Suckling Clover
Photo: A J Brown

Leaf and flower of Suckling Clover
Leaf and flower of Suckling Clover
Photo: A J Brown

Mature flower-head of Suckling Clover
Mature flower-head of Suckling Clover
Photo: A J Brown

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