Fabaceae FAMILY
Trifolium fragiferum
Trifolium fragiferum
Edibility
0/5
Medicinal
0/5
Safety & Hazards
None known
Botanical Description
Trifolium fragiferum is a creeping stoloniferous herbaceous perennial plant, rooting at the nodes reaching 15 - 40cm in height, with pale-pink flower-heads and ovate pods each containing two light brown seeds[ 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. ]. The plant is sometimes used as a green manure. It is grown as an ornamental, where it is sometimes planted in lawns.
Habitat & Origin
Origintemperate
Native RangeEurasia - Norway to Portugal, east to western Siberia, central Asia, Pakistan, Turkey and the Levant; N. Africa - Morocco to Egypt and Ethiopia
HabitatHumid and moist shady places, river sands, damp open plains, wet meadows, river valleys and bogs; at elevations from sea level to 1,750 metres[ 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. ]. Grassy places, mainly on heavy clay soils and often on rather saline soils[ 17 Title Flora of the British Isles. Publication Author Clapham, Tutin and Warburg. Publisher Cambridge University Press Year 1962 ISBN - Description A very comprehensive flora, the standard reference book but it has no pictures. ].