Trifolium gracilentum

Trifolium gracilentum is a species of clover known by the common names pinpoint clover[1] and slender clover.[2] It is native to western North America including the west coast of the United States and northwestern Mexico, where it grows in many types of habitat, including disturbed areas. It is an annual herb growing prostrate to erect in form with mostly hairless or slightly hairy herbage. The leaves are made up of lance-shaped to oval leaflets. The inflorescence is an umbel of flowers that spread out or flex downward. The flowers have pink or purple corollas less than a centimeter long.

Trifolium gracilentum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Genus: Trifolium
Species:
T. gracilentum
Binomial name
Trifolium gracilentum

One variety of this species, var. palmeri, is a rare plant limited to the Channel Islands of California; it is sometimes treated as a species in its own right, Trifolium palmeri.[3]

Subspecies

Trifolium gracilentum used to be classified with two varieties:

  • Trifolium gracilentum var. gracilentum
  • Trifolium gracilentum var. palmeri

References
  1. "Trifolium gracilentum". Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA. Retrieved 15 December 2015.
  2. "BSBI List 2007". Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland. Archived from the original (xls) on 2015-01-25. Retrieved 2014-10-17.
  3. California Native Plant Society Rare Plant Profile Archived 2012-03-26 at the Wayback Machine


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