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close-up of seeds (Photo: Tracey Slotta at USDA PLANTS Database)
Scientific Name
Trifolium scabrum L.
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
rough clover
Origin
Native to northern Africa, the Azores, the Madeira Islands, the Canary Islands, western and southern Europe, hte middle-east and western Asia.
Naturalised Distribution
Rough clover (Trifolium scabrum) is widely naturalsied in southern Australia (i.e. in some parts of eastern New South Wales, in Victoria and Tasmania, in the south-eastern and southern parts of South Australia, and in the coastal districts of south-western Western Australia).
Notes
Rough clover (Trifolium scabrum) is regarded as an environmental weed in Western Australia and Victoria.