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habit prior to flowering, with broader lower leaves (Photo: Sheldon Navie)
much narrower upper leaves, with three linear leaflets (Photo: Jackie Miles and Max Campbell)
close-up of stem and sheath-like stipule at base of the leaf stalk (Photo: Greg Jordan)
elongated flower cluster (Photo: Jackie Miles and Max Campbell)
uppermost leaf and immature fruit (Photo: Greg Jordan)
close-up of burr-like mature fruit (Photo: Sheldon Navie)
close-up of seeds (Photo: Steve Hurst at USDA PLANTS Database)
young plants (Photo: Sheldon Navie)
Scientific Name
Trifolium angustifolium L.
Synonyms
Trifolium angustifolium L. var. angustifolium
Family
Fabaceae (Queensland, the ACT, Victoria, Tasmania, and the Northern Territory)Fabaceae: sub-family Faboideae (New South Wales)Leguminosae (South Australia)Papilionaceae (Western Australia)
Common Names
narrow leaved clover, narrow-leaf clover, narrowleaf clover, narrowleaf crimson clover, narrow-leaved clover
Origin
Native to northern Africa, the Azores, the Madeira Islands, the Canary Islands, southern Europe, the middle-east and western Asia.
Naturalised Distribution
Widely naturalised in southern Australia (i.e. in southern and eastern New South Wales, the ACT, Victoria, Tasmania, many parts of South Australia and in south-western and southern Western Australia). Occasionally also naturalised in south-eastern Queensland.
Also naturalised overseas in some parts of southern USA (i.e. California, Oregon, Alabama and South Carolina).
Notes
Narrow-leaved clover (Trifolium angustifolium) is regarded as an environmental weed in Western Australia, South Australia and Victoria.
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