| Family |
Fabaceae (alt. Leguminosae) |
| Subfamily |
Faboideae |
| Tribe |
Trifolieae |
| Scientific name |
Trifolium pratense L. |
| Synonyms |
Lagopus pratensis (Linnaeus) Bernhardi; Trifolium alpicola Hegetschweiler; Trifolium baeticum Boissier; Trifolium borysthenicum Gruner; Trifolium brachystylos Knaf; Trifolium bracteatum Schousboe ex Willdenow; Trifolium carpaticum Porcius; Trifolium expansum Waldstein & Kitaibel; Trifolium fontanum Bobrov, in Komarov; Trifolium heterophyllum Trattinnick; Trifolium microphyllum Desvaux; Trifolium pensylvanicum Willdenow; Trifolium pratense L. forma album Alefeld; Trifolium pratense L. forma heterophyllum (Trattinnick) Alefeld; Trifolium pratense L. forma microphyllum (Desvaux) Alefeld; Trifolium pratense L. forma pratarum Alefeld; Trifolium pratense L. forma alpinum (Hoppe) Hoppe ex Alefeld; Trifolium pratense L. var. alpinum Hoppe; Trifolium pratense L. var. americanum Harz; Trifolium pratense L. var. anatolicum Freyn; Trifolium pratense L. var. collinum Gibelli & Belli; Trifolium pratense L. var. expansum (Waldstein & Kitaibel) Haussknecht; Trifolium pratense L. var. frigidum Gaudin; Trifolium pratense L. var. majus Boissier; Trifolium pratense L. var. nivale Koch; Trifolium pratense L. var. genuinum Rouy; Trifolium pratense L. var. sativum Schreber; Trifolium pratense L. var. spontaneum Willkomm; Trifolium pratense L. var. sylvestre Ducommun; Trifolium pratense L. var. villosum de Candolle; Trifolium pratense L. subsp. eupratense Ascherson & Graebner; Trifolium pratense L. subsp. nivale Ascherson & Graebner; Trifolium sativum (Schreber) Crome ex Boenninghausen |
| Common name |
(Japanese common name) murasaki tume-kusa (ムラサキツメクサ, 紫詰草 [meaning: purple
packing weed]), aka tume-kusa (アカツメクサ, 赤詰草 [meaning: red packing weed]) |
| (English common name) red clover, purple clover |
| Distribution |
(Japan) Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, Okinawa |
| (Other nations) [native] Russia, India, Pakistan, Afganistan, Caucasus,
western Asia, Europa, northern Africa |
| Habitat |
Field, roadside |
| Chromosomal number |
2n=14 |
| Description |
Plants 30-60cm tall. Leaves ternate, leaflets each 2-3.5cm long, 1-2.5cm
wide, petioles 2-20cm long. Flowers pink or purple (merely white) 13-15mm
long, flowering in May to October. Perennial plants. |
| Reference |
Trifolium pratense L. |
| Trifolium pratense L. |
| Note |
Naturalized plants (introduces in Meiji era). |
