Unité de Malherbologie & Agronomie Weed Science & Agronomy INRA-Dijon

Bayer Code : trfan

Scientific name: Trifolium angustifolium L.

Synonym(s) of Sc. name:

Classification: Leguminosae, Dicotyledonous

Common name: narrow clover

Synonym(s) of Common name:

Name per country: DE : Fuchsschwanz-Klee ; FR : trèfle à feuilles étroites ; IT : trifoglio angustifoglio ; PT : trevo-de-folhas-estreitas ; EN : narrow clover ;

Biological type: Annual

Seed:

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Seedling:

- Cotyledons lengthened, spoon-shaped.

- First leaf simple, later 3-foliolate.

Adult plant:

- Height: 10-40 cm.

- Stem principal stiffly erect.

- Leaves with 3 leaflets very narrow-linear or linear-lanceolate acute apex (20 to 80 x 2 to 4 mm); stipules narrow with a free part awl -like.

- Flowers pink, small in heads oblong -conical or cylindric (2 to 8 cm), solitary and terminal. Calyx -teeth long, narrow, ciliate, stellate when mature. Corolla no longer than the calyx.

- Fruit : pod.

- Risk of confusion at seedling stage with all the other species of Trifolium and the species of Oxalis , but leaves are narrower.

- Biological type: annual.

Ecological profile (click on flags):   Rare       Present       Present    

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