Weed Science & Agronomy
INRA-Dijon
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Unité de Malherbologie & Agronomie Weed Science & Agronomy INRA-Dijon |
Bayer Code : trfre
Synonym(s) of Sc. name:
Classification: Leguminosae, Dicotyledonous
Common name: white clover
Synonym(s) of Common name:
Name per country: DE : Weiß-Klee ; ES : trébol blanco ; FR : trèfle blanc ; IT : trifoglio bianco ; PT : trevo-branco, PT : trevo-de-Holanda ; EN : white clover ; NL : witte klaver ; DK : hvid klover
Biological type: Perennial with stolons
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- Cotyledons lengthened, spoon-shaped.
- First leaf simple, rounded tip, truncate base conspicuously stalked, later 3-foliolate.
- Height: 10-40 cm. Plant glabrous.
- Stem creeping.
- Leaves with stalks longer than the leaflets ; leaflets as broad as long, cordate, serrate, with moderately prominent veins beneath; stipules whitish, membranous and shortly pointed apex.
- Flowers white numerous in heads erect, roundish, long-stalked; flowers drooping and brownish after flowering.
- Fruit : pod linear, prominent, bossed, without stalk, 3-4-seeded.
- Plant with a good resistance to trampling. Excellent fodder and honey plant. Flowers and seeds expectorant and diuretic; flowers astringent and vulnerary.
- Biological type: perennial with stolons.
- Risk of confusion at seedling stage with all the other species of Trifolium and the species of Oxalis .
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