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Red Clover Trifolium pratense
- Japanese: アカツメクサ Akatsumekusa
- English: Red Clover
- Scientific name: Trifolium pratense
The Flower of Red Clover
- Taken: 4 May 2003 14:25 (Higashiyama, Ikeda city)
- Photographer: Imajo
- Settings: SONY CYBERSHOT (ISO100 97/10mm 10/1250sec)
The Whole Red Clover
- Taken: 4 May 2003 14:27 (Higashiyama, Ikeda city)
- Photographer: Imajo
- Settings: SONY CYBERSHOT (ISO100 97/10mm 10/2500sec)
Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Plantae
- Division: Magnoliophyta
- Class: Magnoliopsida
- Sub Class: Rosidae
- Order: Fabales
- Family: Fabaceae
- Genus: Trifolium
- Species: pratense
Description
Description
Red Clover(Akatsumekusa, Trifolium pratense) is a perennial plant of the genus Trifolium in the family Fabaceae native to Europe.
It was imported as a pasture crop from Europe to Japan in the Meiji Restoration and spread over the whole Japan in a state of nature.
Derivation
Japanese name Akatsumekusa(Red Clover) derives from similar to Shirotsumekusa(White Clover) and flowers that is scarlet. Another name is Murasakitsumekusa(Purple Clover).
Flowers
The flower season is from May to September. Its color is vary from white to crimson. It forms from Many small cone flowers into a round flower.
Leaves And Stems
Stems are between 30cm to 60cm. Leaves and Stems have thin down. Leaves is alternate phyllotaxis. And they usually forms from 3 leaflets, seldom 4.
The leaflet is oval, and it has a V character mottle which is light green color.
Ecology
The habitat is the roadside and the grass which catch the sun.
Etc.
Red Clover is longer and erecter than White Clover.
And the flower is bigger and lower, the leaves are bigger.
External links
Gunma University - Botanical Garden
http://aoki2.si.gunma-u.ac.jp/BotanicalGarden/HTMLs/akatumekusa.html
Iwate University - Floral Calendar in Morioka
http://mc1.cc.iwate-u.ac.jp/FloralCalendarMorioka/.../murasakitsumekusa.html
Plant picture book
http://aquiya.skr.jp/zukan/Trifolium_pratense.html
Google
http://www.google.com/search?q="Trifolium pratense"
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