Taxon: Trifolium repens L.

See also subordinate taxa:

• Trifolium repens var. biasolettii (4 accessions)
• Trifolium repens var. giganteum (1 accessions)
• Trifolium repens var. latum (no accessions)
• Trifolium repens var. macrorrhizum (no accessions)
• Trifolium repens var. pallescens (no accessions)
• Trifolium repens var. repens (1 accessions)

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
  
• bai che zhou cao   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• trèfle blanc   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• trèfle rampant   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Weißklee   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• trifoglio bianco   (Source: Mult Glossary Crops ) – Italian
  
• trifoglio ladino   (Source: Mult Glossary Crops ) – Italian
  
• keuroba   (Source: F Korea ) – Transcribed Korean
  
• tokkipul   (Source: Kulturpflanze 34:132) – Transcribed Korean
  
• trevo-branco   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• trébol blanco   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• vitklöver   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Harmful organism host: crop diseases   (fide Virus Diseases 35. 1987)
  
• Harmful organism host: crop pests   (fide Virus Diseases 35. 1987)
  
• Environmental: soil improver   (fide Cover Crop Database)
  
• Animal food: forage   (fide Intermt F; Food Feed Crops US; Invasive Pl Spec)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Kingsbury; Kellerman et al.; Cooper & Johnson ed2)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Geigy Weed Tables. 1968; Invasive Pl Spec)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Trifolium repens from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View phytochemical or ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• 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]

• AFRICA
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Ethiopia
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania
  Southern Africa: South Africa - Eastern Cape, Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga, North West, Western Cape
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Bhutan; India; Sri Lanka
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Canada
  Mexico
  United States
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: West Indies
  Mesoamerica: Central America
  South America

• widely cultivated

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).
• CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. 1974. The CIBA-GEIGY Weed Tables.
• Converse, R. H., ed. 1987. Virus diseases of small fruits. USDA Agriculture Handbook 631.
• Cooper, M. R. & A. W. Johnson. 1998. Poisonous plants and fungi in Britain: animal and human poisoning. [poisonous].
• Cronquist, A. et al. 1972–. Intermountain flora.
• Duke, J. A. 1981. Handbook of legumes of world economic importance.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Germishuizen, G. & N. L. Meyer, eds. 2003. Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14.
• Gillett, J. M. & N. L. Taylor (M. Collins ed.). 2001. The world of clovers. 342.
• Graham, E. H. 1941. Legumes for erosion control and wildlife. USDA Misc. Publ. 412.
• Inst. Bot. V. L. Komarova, Acad. Sci. URSS. 1963–. Plantae asiae centralis.
• International Seed Testing Association. 1982. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2.
• Kellerman, T. S. et al. 1988. Plant poisonings and mycotoxicoses of livestock in Southern Africa. [poisonous].
• Kingsbury, J. M. 1964. Poisonous plants of the United States and Canada. [poisonous].
• Kumar, S & P. V. Sane. 2003. Legumes of South Asia: a checklist.
• Lee, Y. N. 1997. Flora of Korea.
• Lock, J. M. 1989. Legumes of Africa: a checklist.
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• Meikle, R. D. 1977–1985. Flora of Cyprus.
• Mun-Chan, B. et al. 1986. A checklist of the Korean cultivated plants. Kulturpflanze 34:132.
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• National Academy of Sciences. 1979. Tropical legumes: resources for the future.
• Pignatti, S. 1982. Flora d'Italia.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Quézel, P. & S. Santa. 1962–1963. Nouvelle flore de l'Algerie.
• Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica.
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• University of California Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program. UC SAREP on-line cover crop database (on-line resource).
• Vibrans, H., ed. Malezas de México (on-line resource).
• Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).
• Yakovlev, G. P. et al. 1996. Legumes of Northern Eurasia. [= Amoria repens (L.) C. Presl].
• Zohary, M. & D. Heller. 1984. The genus Trifolium. 167.
• Webster's third new international dictionary.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Trifolium repens.

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

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Trifolium repens.

Synonyms:

• Amoria repens (L.) C. Presl [≡ Trifolium repens var. repens]
  
• Trifolium biasolettii Steud. & Hochst. [≡ Trifolium repens var. biasolettii]
  
• Trifolium macrorrhizum Boiss. [≡ Trifolium repens var. macrorrhizum]
  
• Trifolium occidentale Coombe [= Trifolium repens var. biasolettii]
  (previously associated with 8 accessions)
• (=) Trifolium repens var. atropurpureum hort.
  (previously associated with 3 accessions)
• Trifolium repens var. rubescens hort. [= Trifolium repens var. repens]
  (previously associated with 1 accession)

Check other web resources for Trifolium repens L.:

• 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
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• 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

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• 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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