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Taxon: Trifolium repens L.

Genus: Trifolium subgenus: Trifolium section: Trifoliastrum
Family: Fabaceae (alt. Leguminosae) subfamily: Faboideae tribe: Trifolieae. Also placed in: Papilionaceae
Nomen number: 300625
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 2:767. 1753
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project of the Natural History Museum of London.
Name verified on: 26-Mar-2007 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 26-Mar-2007
Species priority site is: Western Regional PI Station (W6).
Accessions: 799 in National Plant Germplasm System.
  • all available ) NPGS accessions ) or .
  • all available ) NPGS accessions by country.
  • only available ) NPGS core subset accessions for the crop ‘CLOVER’ ) or .


See also subordinate taxa:


Common names:

  • Dutch clover   (Source: Pl Book ) – English
  • ladino clover   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  • Ladino white clover   (Source: GRACE 44:405. 1997) – English   [Trifolium repens var. giganteum]
  • white clover   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  • white Dutch clover   (Source: Websters Dict ) – English
  • trèfle blanc   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  • trèfle rampant   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  • Weißklee   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  • trevo-branco   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  • trébol blanco   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
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Economic importance:

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Distributional range:

      Native:
  • AFRICA
    Northern Africa: Algeria; Egypt; Libya; Morocco; Tunisia
  • ASIA-TEMPERATE
    Western Asia: Afghanistan; Cyprus; Iran; Iraq; Israel; Jordan; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey
    Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Checheno-Ingushetia, Dagestan, Kabardino-Balkaria, Karachay-Cherkessia, Krasnodar, North Ossetia, Stavropol
    Siberia: Russian Federation - Altay, Buryatia, Chelyabinsk, Gorno-Altay, Irkutsk, Kemerovo, Khakassia, Khanty-Mansi, Krasnoyarsk, Kurgan, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Sverdlovsk, Tomsk, Tuva, Tyumen, Ust Orda Buryat
    Middle Asia: Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Tajikistan; Turkmenistan; Uzbekistan
  • ASIA-TROPICAL
    Indian Subcontinent: Pakistan
  • EUROPE
    Northern Europe: Denmark; Faroe Islands; Finland; Iceland; Ireland; Norway; Sweden; United Kingdom
    Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Czechoslovakia; Germany; Hungary; Netherlands; Poland; Switzerland
    East Europe: Belarus; Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania; Moldova; Russian Federation - Arkhangelsk, Astrakhan, Bashkortostan, Belgorod, Bryansk, Chuvashia, Ivanovo, Kaliningrad, Kalmykia, Kaluga, Karelia, Kirov, Komi, Kostroma, Kursk, Leningrad, Lipetsk, Mari-El, Mordvinia, Moscow, Murmansk, Nenets, Novgorod, Orel, Orenburg, Penza, Perm, Pskov, Rostov, Ryazan, Saratov, Smolensk, Tambov, Tatarstan, Tula, Udmurtia, Ulyanovsk, Vladimir, Volgograd, Vologda, Voronezh, Yaroslavl; Ukraine [incl. Krym]
    Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Former Yugoslavia; Greece; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]; Romania
    Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain [incl. Baleares]

      Naturalized: (links to other web resources are provided for some distributions)
  • naturalized in s. Africa, tropical & e. Asia, Australia, New Zealand, United States (including Hawaii), Canada, Mexico, Central America, South America, & West Indies

      Cultivated:
  • widely cultivated

References:

  • CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. The CIBA-GEIGY Weed Tables (Weed TabCIBA)
  • Converse, R. H., ed. 1987. Virus diseases of small fruits. USDA Agriculture Handbook 631. (Virus Diseases)
  • Cronquist, A. et al. 1972–. Intermountain flora. (Intermt F)
  • Duke, J. A. 1981. Handbook of legumes of world economic importance. (Leg WorldEc)
  • Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
  • Gillett, J. M. & N. L. Taylor (M. Collins ed.). 2001. The world of clovers. (Clovers) 342.
  • Graham, E. H. 1941. Legumes for erosion control and wildlife. USDA Misc. Publ. 412. (Leg ErWild)
  • Inst. Bot. V. L. Komarova, Acad. Sci. URSS. 1963–. Plantae asiae centralis. (F CAsia)
  • Mabberley, D. J. 1997. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2. (Pl Book)
  • Malezasdemexico. Malezas de México - on-line resource. (Malezas Mex)
  • Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. (Food Feed Crops US)
  • Meikle, R. D. 1977–1985. Flora of Cyprus. (F Cyprus)
  • Munro, D. B. Canadian poisonous plants information system - on-line resource. (Can Poison Pl)
  • National Academy of Sciences. 1979. Tropical legumes: resources for the future. (Trop Leg)
  • Pignatti, S. 1982. Flora d'Italia. (F Ital)
  • Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
  • Quézel, P. & S. Santa. 1962–1963. Nouvelle flore de l'Algerie. (F Alger)
  • Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica. (F Iran)
  • Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
  • Smythies, B. E. 1984–1986. Flora of Spain and the Balearic Islands: checklist of vascular plants. Englera 3:1-882. (L Spain)
  • Townsend, C. C. & E. Guest. 1966–. Flora of Iraq. (F Iraq)
  • University of California Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program. UC SAREP on-line cover crop database. (Cover Crop Database)
  • Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds. (Invasive Pl Spec)
  • Yakovlev, G. P. et al. 1996. Legumes of Northern Eurasia. (Leg NEurasia) [= Amoria repens (L.) C. Presl].
  • Zohary, M. & D. Heller. 1984. The genus Trifolium. (Trifolium) 167.
  • Webster's third new international dictionary. (Websters Dict)
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Synonyms:


Check other databases for Trifolium repens L.:

  • PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
  • ILDIS: International Legume Database & Information Service
  • 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.
    Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images or nodulation data:

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  • Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
  • Google 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.

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Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?300625 (09 February 2010)

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