Taxon: Trifolium aureum Pollich

See also subordinate taxa:

• Trifolium aureum subsp. aureum (no accessions)
• Trifolium aureum subsp. barbulatum (no accessions)

Common names:

• large hop clover   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• large trefoil   (Source: F BritStace ) – English
  
• gullklöver   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Human food: vegetable   (sprouted seeds fide Cornucopia, as Trifolium agrarium)
  
• Animal food: forage   (fide Food Feed Crops US)
  

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Spain - Canary Islands
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Iran [n.]; Lebanon; Turkey
  Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia
  Siberia: Russian Federation - Western Siberia [s.w.]
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Denmark; Finland; Norway; Sweden
  Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Czechoslovakia; Germany; Hungary; Netherlands; Poland; Switzerland
  East Europe: Belarus; Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania; Russian Federation - European part; Ukraine [incl. Krym]
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Former Yugoslavia; Greece; Italy; Romania
  Southwestern Europe: France; Portugal; Spain [n.e.]

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  North America [widely natzd.]

References:

• Afonin, A. N., S. L. Greene, N. I. Dzyubenko, & A. N. Frolov, eds. Interactive agricultural ecological atlas of Russia and neighboring countries. Economic plants and their diseases, pests and weeds (on-line resource).
• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands.
• Eriksson, O. et al. 1979. Flora of Macaronesia: checklist of vascular plants, ed. 2.
• Gillett, J. M. & N. L. Taylor (M. Collins ed.). 2001. The world of clovers. 40.
• Hickman, J. C., ed. 1993. The Jepson manual: higher plants of California.
• Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds. [= T. agrarium].
• Izquierdo Z., I. et al., eds. 2004. Lista de especies silvestres de Canarias: hongos, plantas y animales terrestres.
• Lock, J. M. & K. Simpson. 1991. Legumes of West Asia: a checklist.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• Pignatti, S. 1982. Flora d'Italia.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica.
• Smythies, B. E. 1984–1986. Flora of Spain and the Balearic Islands: checklist of vascular plants. Englera 3:1-882.
• Stace, C. 1995. New flora of the British Isles.
• Turland, N. et al. 1996. (1244-1246) Proposals to reject the names Trifolium agrarium, Trifolium filiforme and Trifolium procumbens (Leguminosae). Taxon 45:549–551.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
• Zohary, M. & D. Heller. 1984. The genus Trifolium. 332.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Trifolium aureum.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Trifolium aureum.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Trifolium aureum.

Synonyms:

• Chrysaspis aurea (Pollich) Greene [= Trifolium aureum subsp. aureum]
  
• (=) Trifolium agrarium L.
  (previously associated with 23 accessions)
• (=) Trifolium strepens Crantz
  (previously associated with 4 accessions)

Check other web resources for Trifolium aureum Pollich:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• ILDIS: World Database of Legumes
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images or nodulation data:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• GRIN nodulation data

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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