Scientific Name
Trifolium fragiferum L.
Synonyms
Trifolium fragiferum L. var. fragiferum
Common Names
strawberry clover, strawberry headed clover
Family
Fabaceae (Queensland, the ACT, Victoria, Tasmania, and the Northern Territory)Fabaceae: sub-family Faboideae (New South Wales)Leguminosae (South Australia)Papilionaceae (Western Australia)
Origin
Native to northern Africa (i.e. northern Algeria, northern Egypt, northern Libya, Morocco, Tunisia and Ethiopia), the Canary Islands, Europe, Russia, western Asia (i.e. Afghanistan, Cyprus, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan) and Pakistan.
Naturalised Distribution
Widely naturalised in southern and eastern Australia (i.e. in south-eastern Queensland, southern and eastern New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, many parts of South Australia and south-western Western Australia).
Notes
Strawberry clover (Trifolium fragiferum) is regarded as an environmental weed in Victoria.
