Taxon: Trifolium incarnatum L.

See also subordinate taxa:

• Trifolium incarnatum var. incarnatum (no accessions)
• Trifolium incarnatum var. molinerii (3 accessions)

Common names:

• carnation clover   (Source: Clovers ) – English
  
• crimson clover   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• Italian clover   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• scarlet clover   (Source: Clovers ) – English
  
• jiang che zhou cao   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• farouche   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• trèfle incarnat   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Inkarnatklee   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• trifoglio incarnato   (Source: Mult Glossary Crops ) – Italian
  
• benibana-tsumekusa   (Source: F Japan ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  
• trevo-encarnado   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• trevo-vermelho   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• trébol encarnado   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• blodklöver   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Bee plants: honey production   (fide Dict Gard)
  
• Environmental: revegetator   (fide Dict Gard)
  
• Environmental: soil improver   (fide Cover Crop Database)
  
• Human food: vegetable   (as sprouted seeds fide Cornucopia)
  
• Animal food: fodder   (fide Food Feed Crops US)
  
• Animal food: forage   (fide Food Feed Crops US)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Kingsbury)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Trifolium incarnatum from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Portugal - Madeira Islands
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Turkey
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: United Kingdom
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Former Yugoslavia; Greece [incl. Crete]; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]; Romania
  Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain

• naturalized elsewhere in temperate regions

• also cultivated in temperate regions

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.
• Duke, J. A. 1981. Handbook of legumes of world economic importance.
• Englert, J. M. et al. 1999–. USDA-NRCS Improved conservation plant materials released by NRCS and cooperators.
• Eriksson, O. et al. 1979. Flora of Macaronesia: checklist of vascular plants, ed. 2.
• Facciola, S. 1990. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Gillett, J. M. & N. L. Taylor (M. Collins ed.). 2001. The world of clovers. 186.
• Graham, E. H. 1941. Legumes for erosion control and wildlife. USDA Misc. Publ. 412.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• International Seed Testing Association. 1982. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2.
• Iwatsuki, K. et al. 1993–. Flora of Japan.
• Kingsbury, J. M. 1964. Poisonous plants of the United States and Canada.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• McGregor, R. L. et al. (The Great Plains Flora Association). 1986. Flora of the Great Plains.
• Pignatti, S. 1982. Flora d'Italia.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Silva, L. et al. 2005. Listagem da fauna e flora terrestres dos Açores. Lista des plantas vasculares (Pteridophyta e Spermatophyta).
• Smythies, B. E. 1984–1986. Flora of Spain and the Balearic Islands: checklist of vascular plants. Englera 3:1-882.
• Stubbendieck, J. & E. C. Conard. 1989. Common legumes of the Great Plains.
• University of California Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program. UC SAREP on-line cover crop database (on-line resource).
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).
• Zohary, M. & D. Heller. 1984. The genus Trifolium. 404.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Trifolium incarnatum.

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

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Trifolium incarnatum.

Synonyms:

• Trifolium incarnatum subsp. molinerii (Balb. ex Hornem.) Syme [≡ Trifolium incarnatum var. molinerii]
  
• Trifolium molinerii Balb. ex Hornem. [≡ Trifolium incarnatum var. molinerii]
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• Trifolium stellatum var. elatius Gibelli & Belli [= Trifolium incarnatum var. incarnatum]
  
• Trifolium stellatum subvar. stramineum (C. Presl) Gibelli & Belli [= Trifolium incarnatum var. molinerii]
  
• Trifolium stramineum C. Presl [= Trifolium incarnatum var. molinerii]
  

Check other web resources for Trifolium incarnatum L.:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• 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 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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