Weed Science & Agronomy
INRA-Dijon
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Unité de Malherbologie & Agronomie Weed Science & Agronomy INRA-Dijon |
Bayer Code : trfto
Synonym(s) of Sc. name:
Classification: Leguminosae, Dicotyledonous
Common name: woolly clover
Synonym(s) of Common name:
Name per country: DE : Filziger Klee ; ES : trébol de algodón ; FR : trèfle cotonneux ; IT : trifoglio tomentoso ; PT : trevo-tomentoso ; EN : woolly clover ;
Biological type: Annual
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Seedling:
- Cotyledons lengthened, spoon-shaped.
- First leaf simple, the later 3-foliolate.
- Height: 5-20 cm.
- Stem glabrous, prostrate, spreading not rooting.
- Leaves with ovate, minutely veined and serrate leaflets ; petioles and peduncles glabrous. Stipules ovate lanceolate wide at the base.
- Flowers pink, very small, sessile, roundish, dense, tomentose at last, on peduncles shorter than the leaf.
- Fruit : pod concealed by the calyx, sessile, unbeaked.
- Rare in crops.
- 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):
Present
Rare
Present
