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Common Names
Origin
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infestation (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

habit in flower (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

habit in fruit (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

close-up of leaves, each with three leaflets, and pink flowers (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

close-up of old flowers and young fruit (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

close-up of clusters of very hairy immature fruit (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

close-up of cluster of mature fruit (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

close-up of seeds (Photo: Tracey Slotta at USDA PLANTS Database)

Trifolium tomentosum

Scientific Name

Trifolium tomentosum L.

Synonyms

Trifolium tomentosum L. var. tomentosum

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

clover, cottonball clover, woolly clover, woolly headed clover, woolly-head clover, woolly-headed 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 and eastern Australia (i.e. south-eastern Queensland, New South Wales, the ACT, Victoria, Tasmania, in large parts of South Australia and in the south-western and western parts of Western Australia).

Notes

Woolly clover (Trifolium tomentosum) is regarded as an environmental weed in Western Australia and Victoria.