Taxon: Trifolium medium L.

See also subordinate taxa:

• Trifolium medium var. medium (9 accessions)
• Trifolium medium var. sarosiense (9 accessions)

Common names:

• mammoth clover   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• zigzag clover   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• Mittelklee   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• Zickzackklee   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• trevo-roxo   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• klever srednyj   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Transliterated Russian
  
• trébol intermedio   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• skogsklöver   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: erosion control   (fide Leg WorldEc)
  
• Animal food: fodder   (grazing, hay fide Leg WorldEc)
  
• Animal food: forage   (grazing, hay fide Leg WorldEc)
  
• Gene sources: potential for pest resistance in red clover   (fide Genet Res Crop Evol 44:439-445. 1997)
  

More:

View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

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

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.
• 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.
• Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6.
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• Kouame, C. N. et al. 1997. Response to root-knot nematodes of a germplasm collection of red clover and related species. Genet. Resources Crop Evol. 44:439–445.
• 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.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Smythies, B. E. 1984–1986. Flora of Spain and the Balearic Islands: checklist of vascular plants. Englera 3:1-882.
• Zohary, M. & D. Heller. 1984. The genus Trifolium.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Trifolium medium.

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

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Trifolium medium.

Synonyms:

• Trifolium medium subsp. sarosiense (Hazsl.) Simonk. [≡ Trifolium medium var. sarosiense]
  
• Trifolium sarosiense Hazsl. [≡ Trifolium medium var. sarosiense]
  

Check other web resources for Trifolium medium 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 Images of germplasm accessions.
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• 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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