Taxon: Trifolium glomeratum L.

Common names:

• ball clover   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• bush clover   (Source: Clovers ) – English
  
• cluster clover   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• smooth-head trefoil   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• trèfle aggloméré   (Source: L Noms French ed7 ) – French
  
• trifoglio agglomerato   (Source: Mult Glossary Crops ) – Italian
  
• dango-tsumekusa   (Source: F Japan ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  
• nystklöver   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Animal food: forage   (fide Food Feed Crops US)
  

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Cape Verde [Santa Antao]; Portugal - Madeira Islands; Spain - Canary Islands
  Northern Africa: Algeria; Morocco; Tunisia
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Cyprus; Iran; Israel; Turkey
  Caucasus: Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Dagestan, Krasnodar
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Ireland; United Kingdom - England [e.]
  Middle Europe: Germany
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Former Yugoslavia; Greece [incl. Crete]; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]
  Southwestern Europe: France [s. & Corsica]; Portugal; Spain [incl. Baleares]

• widely naturalized

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).
• Arechavaleta, M. et al., eds. 2005. Lista preliminar de especies silvestres de Cabo Verde: hongos, plantas y animales terrestres.
• Arnold, T. H. & B. C. De Wet, eds. 1993. Plants of southern Africa: names and distribution. Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa no. 62.
• Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
• 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.
• Eriksson, O. et al. 1979. Flora of Macaronesia: checklist of vascular plants, ed. 2.
• Gillett, J. M. & N. L. Taylor (M. Collins ed.). 2001. The world of clovers.
• Hickman, J. C., ed. 1993. The Jepson manual: higher plants of California.
• Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds.
• 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.
• Iwatsuki, K. et al. 1993–. Flora of Japan.
• Izquierdo Z., I. et al., eds. 2004. Lista de especies silvestres de Canarias: hongos, plantas y animales terrestres.
• Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia.
• 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.
• Quézel, P. & S. Santa. 1962–1963. Nouvelle flore de l'Algerie.
• Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica.
• 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.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
• Yakovlev, G. P. et al. 1996. Legumes of Northern Eurasia. [= Amoria glomerata (L.) Soják].
• Zohary, M. & D. Heller. 1984. The genus Trifolium.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Trifolium glomeratum.

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

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Trifolium glomeratum.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Amoria glomerata (L.) Soják
  

Check other web resources for Trifolium glomeratum L.:

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

• 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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