Taxon: Trifolium hirtum All.

Common names:

• rose clover   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• trifoglio irto   (Source: Mult Glossary Crops ) – Italian
  
• birōdo-aka-tsumekusa   (Source: F Japan ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  
• trébol rosa   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• rosenklöver   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: soil improver   (fide Cover Crop Database)
  
• Animal food: forage   (fide Food Feed Crops US)
  

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Spain - Canary Islands [Tenerife]
  Northern Africa: Algeria; Morocco; Tunisia
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Cyprus; Iran; Iraq; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey
  Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan
• EUROPE
  East Europe: Ukraine - Krym
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Former Yugoslavia; Greece [incl. Crete]; Italy
  Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain [incl. Baleares]

• 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.
• Englert, J. M. et al. 1999–. USDA-NRCS Improved conservation plant materials released by NRCS and cooperators.
• 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. [lists as T. hirtum L.].
• 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.
• Jahandiez, E. & R. Maire. 1931–1941. Catalogue des plantes du Maroc.
• 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).
• Quézel, P. & S. Santa. 1962–1963. Nouvelle flore de l'Algerie.
• 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.
• Townsend, C. C. & E. Guest. 1966–. Flora of Iraq.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
• University of California Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program. UC SAREP on-line cover crop database (on-line resource).
• Zohary, M. & D. Heller. 1984. The genus Trifolium.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Trifolium hirtum.

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

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Trifolium hirtum.

Synonyms:

• (=) Trifolium hispidum Desf.
  (previously associated with 1 accession)

Check other web resources for Trifolium hirtum All.:

• 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:

• 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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