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Scientific Name
Synonyms
Common Names
Family
Origin
Naturalised Distribution
Notes
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Strawberry clover
Trifolium fragiferum

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.



infestation growing in a mown area (Photo: Sheldon Navie)


creeping habit (Photo: Sheldon Navie)


habit in fruit (Photo: Sheldon Navie)


leaves (Photo: Sheldon Navie)


close-up of stem and hairy leaf stalks (Photo: Sheldon Navie)


close-up of leaves with three oval leaflets (Photo: Sheldon Navie)


flower clusters (Photo: Sheldon Navie)


pink flowers (Photo: Sheldon Navie)


old flowers and young fruit (Photo: Sheldon Navie)


the strawberry-like cluster of immature fruit (Photo: Sheldon Navie)


cluster of mature fruit (Photo: Sheldon Navie)


close-up of seeds (Photo: Steve Hurst at USDA PLANTS Database)