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Trifolium dubium (hop clover; Lesser Trefoil; Little Hop Clover; smallhop clover; Shamrock; Small Hop Clover; Suckling Clover; Yellow Suckling Clover; low hop clover; Carreton Centella; Kleiner Klee; Least Hop Clover; Petit trefle jaune; Trefle Douteux; Zlatoshchitnik Somnitelnyi; Zweifelhafter Klee)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Trifolium dubium, the lesser trefoil, suckling clover, little hop clover or lesser hop trefoil, is a flowering plant in the pea and clover family Fabaceae. This species is generally accepted as the primary plant to represent the traditional Irish shamrock. It is native to Europe, but can be found in many parts of the world as an introduced species. It is probably an allotetraploid with 2n=32 that arose from the crossing of Trifolium campestre and T. micranthum.
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Invasive Species

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Attributes

Bee Flower Color [1]  Green
Flower Color [1]  Yellow
Flower Type [2]  Hermaphrodite
Lifespan [2]  Annual
Pollinators [2]  Bees, Bats
Structure [4]  Herb
Usage [2]  The plant fixes atmospheric nitrogen and is used in seed mixes with grasses for land reclamation sowings;
Height [2]  20 inches (0.5 m)
Light Preference [3]  Mostly Sunny
Soil Acidity [3]  Moderate Acid
Soil Fertility [3]  Intermediate
Soil Moisture [3]  Mostly Dry
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Parasitized by 
Erysiphe trifolii[6]
Ischnopterapion virens (White Clover Weevil)[7]
Orobanche minor (hellroot)[6]
Uromyces anthyllidis[6]
Uromyces minor[6]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

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♦ 1Arnold SEJ, Faruq S, Savolainen V, McOwan PW, Chittka L, 2010 FReD: The Floral Reflectance Database — A Web Portal for Analyses of Flower Colour. PLoS ONE 5(12): e14287.
♦ 2Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 3ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999)
♦ 4Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 5Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 6Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 7Ecology of Commanster
♦ 8New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Plant-SyNZ™ database
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0