Scientific name: Anthophyta: Dicotyledonae: Rosales: Fabaceae: Trifolium pratense
Common Name: Red Clover
Country: USA
State/District: MD
County: Montgomery
Date: 14 May 2001
Photographer: E. M. Barrows
Identifier: E. M. Barrows
Collector: not applicable
Location: Bethesda, Maryland
Keywords: Red Clover Forest Ecology pink flower purple flower white flower Additional Information: Figures 1-5.
Views of the same Red Clover plant.
Red Clover is a biennial or short-lived perennial that is native
to Europe, and now occurs in my U.S. states (Fernald 1950, page 893).
Flowers of this species range from purple through purple pink and
creamy-white.
Fernald, M. L. 1950. Gray's Manual of Botany. Eight Edition.
American Book Company, New York, NY. 1632 pp.
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