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

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

Cache: Yes

Red Clover Trifolium pratense

The Flower of Red Clover

The Whole Red Clover

Scientific classification

Description

Description

Derivation

Flowers

Leaves And Stems

Ecology

Etc.

External links

Gunma University - Botanical Garden

Iwate University - Floral Calendar in Morioka

Plant picture book

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