Fabaceae FAMILY

Trifolium resupinatum

Edibility

2/5

Medicinal

0/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Trifolium resupinatum is an erect decumbent or prostrate, coarse, annual to biennial plant, branching from the base and growing 15 - 30cm tall, though prostrate forms can have stems 50 - 100cm long[ 418 Title Ecocrop Publication Author Website http://ecocrop.fao.org/ecocrop/srv/en/home Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description Basic information on a wide range of useful plants, plus details of environmental needs where available. , 1145 Title AgroAtlas Publication Author Website http://www.agroatlas.ru/en/index.html Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An on-line database of economic plants of Russia and the surrounding countries that formed the USSR, giving botanical descriptions, distribution, habitats and uses. It also gives comprehensive information on climate, soil, pests, diseases etc ]. The plant is sometimes harvested as a food, especially in Asia, and is also widely grown as a green manure, forage and bee crop. It is cultivated in ornamental gardens, valued especially for its sweet-smelling flowers.

Habitat & Origin

Origintemperate

Native RangeEurasia - - France to Portuga, east to southern Siberia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Turkey and the Levant; N. Africa - Morocco tp Egypt

HabitatFound mostly on heavy soils, growing on fallows and in natural grazing, on roadsides and waste ground[ 1145 Title AgroAtlas Publication Author Website http://www.agroatlas.ru/en/index.html Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An on-line database of economic plants of Russia and the surrounding countries that formed the USSR, giving botanical descriptions, distribution, habitats and uses. It also gives comprehensive information on climate, soil, pests, diseases etc ]. Roadsides, in fields, waste places, humid grassy plains and lower mountains; at elevations from sea level to 1,500 metres[ 317 Title Mansfeld's Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Plants Publication Author Website http://mansfeld.ipk-gatersleben.de/pls/htmldb_pgrc/f?p=185:3:4292127278597336 Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description Terse details of a huge range of useful plants. ].