Strawberry Clover

Strawberry Clover photos

Family: Pea (Fabaceae syn. Papilionaceae)

Scientific Name:

Trifolium fragiferum

Strawberry Clover
Ex Matters & Bozon

Status:

Native to Eastern Mediterranean and Asia Minor. Introduced to all southern Australian states and New Zealand.

Plant Description:

Typical clover with a group of 3 leaflets held at the end of a leaf stalk. Low growing, spreading by stolons and sometimes forming mats. Rather narrow pointed oval-shaped leaflets with very prominent close-set twice-forked veins and sometimes with small black, brown or white crescent markings. Leaf edges may be slightly toothed.

Round pinkish flower-heads made up of numerous tiny individual flowers (florets), drying from the outside in. Flowers in spring and summer.

After flowering the calyx (outer part of flowers) swells up giving the cluster a strawberry-like appearance which is cream with rusty coloured bits (dried petals).

Habitat:

Loams and clays.

Region	Salinity Class	Waterlogging Class
Loddon Murray, Central and Northern, Western, Gippsland	S0, S1, S2	W1, W2, W3

Comments:

Found in pastures and grassland. Able to withstand conditions which are too wet, too dry, too alkaline or too saline for white clover. Difficult to establish but persists well under heavy grazing once established.

Strawberry Clover Photos

Strawberry Clover flowerhead Photo: A J Brown	Ground-cover of Strawberry Clover Photo: A J Brown
Leaves of Strawberry Clover Photo: A J Brown

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