Common name: Rose Clover
Trifolium hirtum All. APNI* Description: Erect or decumbent annual, densely hairy.
Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets obovate, 8–15 mm long, 6–10 mm wide, 1.3–1.5 times as long as broad, finely toothed.
Inflorescences globose, c. 20 mm long and diam., 20–40-flowered, terminal, sessile. Flowers sessile. Calyx throat open; teeth subequal, erect or slightly spreading in pod. Corolla 15–17 mm long, longer than calyx, purple, persistent. Pod 1-seeded, included in calyx.
Distribution and occurrence: Chiefly from Wellingrove to Corowa. Native of S Eur., N Afr.
NSW subdivisions: *NC, *NWS, *CWS, *SWS, *SWP
Other Australian states: *W.A.
Text by P. H. Weston
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 2 (1991)
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