Taxon: Trifolium dubium Sibth.

Common names:

• lesser trefoil   (Source: F BritStace ) – English
  
• low hop clover   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• shamrock   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• small clover   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• small hop clover   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• small trefoil   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• suckling clover   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• yellow clover   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• dun ye che zhou cao   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• trèfle douteux   (Source: L Noms French ed7 ) – French
  
• trifoglio filiforme   (Source: Mult Glossary Crops ) – Italian
  
• trådklöver   (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 Dict Gard)
  
• Animal food: forage   (fide Food Feed Crops US)
  

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Northern Africa: Morocco; Tunisia
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Cyprus; Israel; Turkey
  Caucasus: Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Denmark; Ireland; Norway; Sweden; United Kingdom
  Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Czechoslovakia; Germany; Hungary; Netherlands; Poland; Switzerland
  East Europe: Belarus; Latvia; Lithuania; Russian Federation - European part; Ukraine [incl. Krym]
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Former Yugoslavia; Greece; Italy [incl. Sardinia]; Romania
  Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain

• 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.
• Demilly, D. et al. 2001. Liste alphabétique des principales espèces de plantes cultivées et de mauvaises herbes. Noms latins et noms français, ed. 7.
• 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. 142.
• 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.
• 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.
• Jahandiez, E. & R. Maire. 1931–1941. Catalogue des plantes du Maroc.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. [= T. procumbens].
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• 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. [= T. filiforme subsp. dubium (Sibth.) Maire].
• Smythies, B. E. 1984–1986. Flora of Spain and the Balearic Islands: checklist of vascular plants. Englera 3:1-882.
• Stace, C. 1995. New flora of the British Isles.
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).
• Zohary, M. & D. Heller. 1984. The genus Trifolium. 343.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Trifolium dubium.

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

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Trifolium dubium.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Chrysaspis dubia (Sibth.) Desv.
  
• (≡) Trifolium filiforme var. dubium (Sibth.) Fiori
  
• (=) Trifolium minus Sm.
  (previously associated with 6 accessions)
• (=) Trifolium parviflorum Bunge ex Nyman
  (previously associated with 2 accessions)

Check other web resources for Trifolium dubium Sibth.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• 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:

• Seeds or fruits: Seed ID Workshop image, from Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University
• 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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