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Trifolium
Clovers, also called trefoils, are plants of the genus Trifolium (from Latin tres 'three' and folium 'leaf'), consisting of about 300 species of flowering plants in the legume family Fabaceae originating in Europe. The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution with the highest diversity in the temperate Northern Hemisphere, but many species also occur in South America and Africa, including at high altitudes on mountains in the tropics.
11 branches of this group, most-observed first
Trifolium
sectionTrifolium
Trifoliastrum
sectionTrifoliastrum
Vesicastrum
sectionVesicastrum
Involucrarium
sectionInvolucrarium
Trichocephalum
sectionTrichocephalum
Lupinaster
sectionLupinaster
Glycyrrhizum
sectionGlycyrrhizum
Paramesus
sectionParamesus
Trifolium × neyrautii
hybridTrifolium × neyrautii
Trifolium acutiflorum
speciesTrifolium acutiflorum
Trifolium sannineum
speciesTrifolium sannineum
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Oxford Universal History of Plants, Part Two
Robert Morison · 1669 · p.667
Hortus Eystettensis
Basilius Besler · 1640 · p.120
Introductio Generalis in Rem Herbariam
Augustus Quirinus Rivinus · 1690 · p.255
Introductio Generalis in Rem Herbariam
Augustus Quirinus Rivinus · 1690 · p.254
History of Rare Plants
Carolus Clusius · 1601 · p.621
Introductio Generalis in Rem Herbariam
Augustus Quirinus Rivinus · 1690 · p.256
Introductio Generalis in Rem Herbariam
Augustus Quirinus Rivinus · 1690 · p.257
Ortus sanitatis
1491 · p.455
Garden of Health (Hortus Sanitatis)
Jacob Meydenbach · 1491 · p.369
The Book of Health: The Art of Distillation
Brunschwig, Hieronymus · 1505 · p.166
Garden of Health
1507 · p.367
Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants
Leonhart Fuchs · 1542 · p.851
In the stacks
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 967289.