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.

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