Anthophyta: Dicotyledonae: Rosales: Fabaceae: Trifolium repens [return to Home Page]

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Scientific name: Anthophyta: Dicotyledonae: Rosales: Fabaceae: Trifolium repens
Common Name: White Clover

Country: USA
State/District: DC
County: not applicable
Date: 19 May 2001

Photographer: E. M. Barrows

Identifier: E. M. Barrows
Collector: not applicable
Location: Georgetown University Campus
Keywords: Forest Ecology GU pink flower White Clover white flower
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Figure 1.   White Clover in a lawn on GU Main Campus.
Figure 2.   Ditto.
Figure 3.   Ditto.   A pink flower head.
Figure 4.   A female Azure (butterfly) feeding on nectar of White Clover, Bethesda, Maryland, 31 May 2001.

White Clover is native to Europe, and now occurs in many U.S. states (Fernald 1950, page 893).

Fernald, M. L.   1950.   Gray's Manual of Botany.   Eight Edition.   American Book Company, New York, NY.   1632 pp.



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