Taxon: Trifolium resupinatum L.

See also subordinate taxa:

• Trifolium resupinatum var. majus (no accessions)
• Trifolium resupinatum var. resupinatum (no accessions)

Common names:

• annual strawberry clover   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• bird-eye clover   (Source: Leg WorldEc ) – English
  
• Persian clover   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• reversed clover   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• reversed trefoil   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• shaftal clover   (Source: Clovers ) – English
  
• trèfle renversé   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• persischer Klee   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• shaftal   (Source: Leg WorldEc ) – India
  
• trifoglio resupinato   (Source: Mult Glossary Crops ) – Italian
  
• trevo-da-Pérsia   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• trébol persa   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• doftklöver   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  
• stor doftklöver   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish   [Trifolium resupinatum var. majus]
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: soil improver   (fide Leg WorldEc)
  
• Animal food: fodder   (grazing, hay, silage fide Crops US)
  
• Animal food: forage   (grazing, hay, silage fide Crops US)
  

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Portugal - Madeira Islands; Spain - Canary Islands
  Northern Africa: Algeria [n.]; Egypt; Libya [n.]; Morocco; Tunisia
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Afghanistan; Cyprus; Iran; Iraq; Israel; Jordan [n.w.]; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey
  Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Dagestan, Krasnodar, Stavropol
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Pakistan
• EUROPE
  Middle Europe: Hungary; Switzerland
  East Europe: Ukraine [incl. Krym]
  Southeastern Europe: Bulgaria; Former Yugoslavia; Italy; Malta; Romania
  Southwestern Europe: France; Portugal; Spain

• widely naturalized elsewhere

• also 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).
• 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.
• Eriksson, O. et al. 1979. Flora of Macaronesia: checklist of vascular plants, ed. 2.
• 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. 344.
• Graham, E. H. 1941. Legumes for erosion control and wildlife. USDA Misc. Publ. 412.
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• International Seed Testing Association. 1982. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2.
• Izquierdo Z., I. et al., eds. 2004. Lista de especies silvestres de Canarias: hongos, plantas y animales terrestres.
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR.
• Magness, J. R. et al. 1971. Food and feed crops of the United States. IR Bull. 1.
• 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.
• Meikle, R. D. 1977–1985. Flora of Cyprus.
• Pignatti, S. 1982. Flora d'Italia.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Pottier-Alapetite, G. 1979–1981. Flore de la Tunisie: Angiospermes-Dicotyledones.
• Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica.
• 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.
• Täckholm, V. 1974. Students' flora of Egypt, ed. 2.
• Thulin, M. 1983. Leguminosae of Ethiopia. Opera Bot. 68:1-223.
• Townsend, C. C. & E. Guest. 1966–. Flora of Iraq.
• Yakovlev, G. P. et al. 1996. Legumes of Northern Eurasia. [= Amoria resupinata (L.) Roskov].
• Zohary, M. & D. Heller. 1984. The genus Trifolium. 298.
• Zohary, M. & N. Feinbrun-Dothan. 1966–. Flora palaestina.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Trifolium resupinatum.

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

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Trifolium resupinatum.

Synonyms:

• Amoria resupinata (L.) Roskov [≡ Trifolium resupinatum var. resupinatum]
  
• Trifolium resupinatum var. suaveolens (Willd.) Dinsm. [= Trifolium resupinatum var. majus]
  (previously associated with 2 accessions)
• Trifolium suaveolens Willd. [= Trifolium resupinatum var. majus]
  (previously associated with 20 accessions)

Check other web resources for Trifolium resupinatum L.:

• 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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