Weed Science & Agronomy
INRA-Dijon
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Unité de Malherbologie & Agronomie Weed Science & Agronomy INRA-Dijon |
Bayer Code : trfsl
Synonym(s) of Sc. name:
Classification: Leguminosae, Dicotyledonous
Common name: starry clover
Synonym(s) of Common name:
Name per country: DE : Stern-Klee ; ES : trébol estrellado ; FR : trèfle étoilé ; IT : trifoglio stellato ; PT : trevo-estrelado ; EN : starry clover ;
Biological type: Annual
Seedling:
- Cotyledons lengthened, spoon-shaped.
- First leaf simple, later 3-foliolate.
- Height: 5-25 cm. Plant softly hairy, whitish.
- Stem erect or ascending with upper internodes more long;
- Leaves all alternate, with small obcordate serrate tip leaflets ; stipules broad with an ovate -obtuse free part, dentate.
- Flowers white-pinky in heads globose, terminal, 15-25 mm, spherical-ovate, with long peduncles (3 to 10 cm); calyx -teeth long, narrow, stellate when mature; flower nearly as long as the calyx.
- Fruit : pod.
- Plant protected in Charentes-Poitou (decree 19/04/88).[France]
- Biological type: annual.
- Risk of confusion at seedling stage with all the other species of Trifolium and the species of Oxalis .
Ecological profile (click on flags):
Rare
Present
Present
