Trifolium arvense

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Family:FABACEAE
Species:Trifolium arvense L.
Common Name:Rabbit Foot Clover
Habitat:**
Associated Ecological Communities:**
Growth Habit:Herb
Duration:Annual
Category:Vascular
USDA Symbol:TRAR4
Plant Notes:Rabbit Foot Clover is an introduced annual herbaceous plant in the Bean family (Fabaceae). It is native to Europe and western Asia. In Alabama, it can be found state wide. Rabbit Foot Clover grows in lawns, on roadsides, and in fields and pastures. It is an annual with a tap root. Stems are erect, branched or unbranched, 2-14 inches in height, and softly pubescent. Leaves are alternate, petiolate, and palmately 3-foliate. The leaflets are linear to oblanceolate in outline, ciliate along the margins or with tiny teeth, and pubescent. Flowers are produced in a dense gray terminal head. Individual flowers are sessile with a densely pubescent calyx. The calyx has 5 wide spreading narrow lobes that are plumose pubescent. Flowers are white or pink in color and exceeded by the calyx lobes. The fruit is a 1-2 seeded legume that is enclosed in the calyx. Rabbit Foot Clover is a larval food plant for Orange Sulfur (Colias eurytheme), Clouded Sulfur (Colias philodice), Eastern Tailed Blue (Everes comyntas), and Northern Cloudywing (Thorybes pylades) Butterflies. Rabbit Foot Clover is sometimes planted as a cover crop to improve soil fertility.--A. Diamond
Taxonomic Notes:**
Status:Not Native
References:**
Specimen: View specimen details in the Alabama Herbarium Consortium Specimen Database

** Not applicable or data not available.

Classification

FamilyFABACEAE - Pea/Bean family
Genus Trifolium
Species Trifolium arvense L. - Rabbit Foot Clover

Citation

Citation Trifolium arvense Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 2: 769. 1753.
Basionym: **
Type: Without data, Herb. Clifford 374, Trifolium 13 (lectotype: BM). Lectotypified by Zohary, Candollea 27: 146. 1972.

** Not applicable or data not available.

Synonyms

SynonymFull CitationBasionymType
Trifolium agrestinum Trifolium agrestinum Jordan ex Boreau, Fl. Centre France, ed. 3. 2: 153. 1857. FRANCE
Trifolium arenivagum Trifolium arenivagum Jordan ex Boreau, Fl. Centre France, ed. 3. 2: 153. 1857. FRANCE
Trifolium arvense subsp. agrestinum Trifolium arvense Linnaeus, subsp. agrestinum (Jordan ex Boreau) Rouy, Fl. France 5: 106. 1899.Trifolium agrestinum Jordan ex Boreau 1857 
Trifolium arvense subsp. brittingeri Trifolium arvense Linnaeus, subsp. brittingeri (Weitenweber) W. D. J. Koch ex Rouy, Fl. France 5: 105. 1899.Trifolium brittingeri Weitenweber 1852. 
Trifolium arvense subsp. longisetum Trifolium arvense Linnaeus, subsp. longisetum (Boissier & Balansa ex Boissier) Rouy, Fl. France 5: 104. 1899.Trifolium longisetum Boissier & Balansa ex Boissier 1859. 
Trifolium arvense var. aetnense Trifolium arvense Linnaeus, var. aetnense Gussone, Fl. Sicul. Syn. 2: 236. 1844. ITALY
Trifolium arvense var. alopecuroides Trifolium arvense Linnaeus, var. alopecuroides Rouy, Fl. France 5: 106. 1899.  
Trifolium arvense var. arenivagum Trifolium arvense Linnaeus, var. arenivagum (Jordan ex Boreau) Beck, Fl. Nieder-Oesterreich 848. 1892.Trifolium arenivagum Jordan ex Boreau 1857. 
Trifolium arvense var. australe Trifolium arvense Linnaeus, var. australe Tenore, Fl. Napol. 5: 141. 1835- 1836.  
Trifolium arvense var. ballii Trifolium arvense Linnaeus, var. ballii Murbeck, Contr. Fl. Maroc 1: 62. 1922.  
Trifolium arvense var. brachyodon Trifolium arvense Linnaeus, var. brachyodon Celakovsky, Prodr. Fl. Boehmen 907. 1881.  
Trifolium arvense var. capitatum Trifolium arvense Linnaeus, var. capitatum Seringe, in de Candolle, Prodr. 2: 191. 1825.  
Trifolium arvense var. crassicaule Trifolium arvense Linnaeus, var. crassicaule Seringe, in de Candolle, Prodr. 2: 191. 1825.  
Trifolium arvense var. cyrenaicum Trifolium arvense Linnaeus, var. cyrenaicum Pampannini, Nuovo Giorn. Bot. Ital., ser. 2. 31: 217. 1924.  
Trifolium arvense var. latifolium Trifolium arvense Linnaeus, var. latifolium Pantu, Contr. Fl. Bucurest. 2: 45. 1910.  
Trifolium arvense var. longisetum Trifolium arvense Linnaeus, var. longisetum (Boissier & Balansa ex Boissier) Boissier, Fl. Orient. 2: 120. 1872.Trifolium longisetum Boissier & Balansa ex Boissier 1859. 
Trifolium arvense var. perpusillum Trifolium arvense Linnaeus, var. perpusillum Seringe, in de Candolle, Prodr. 2: 191. 1825.  
Trifolium arvense var. strictior Trifolium arvense Linnaeus, var. strictior Mertens & W. D. J. Koch, in Röhling, Deutschl. Fl., ed. 3. 5: 270. 1839.  
Trifolium arvense var. typicum Trifolium arvense Linnaeus, var. typicum Beck, Fl. Nieder-Oesterreich 848. 1892, nom. inadmiss.Trifolium arvense Linnaeus 1753. 
Trifolium brittingeri Trifolium brittingeri Weitenweber, in Opiz, Naturalientausch 9: 142. 1852.  
Trifolium capitulatum Trifolium capitulatum Pau, Not. Bot. Fl. Espan. 1: 9. 1887.  
Trifolium eriocephalum Trifolium eriocephalum Ledebour, Fl. Ross. 1: 541. 1843.  
Trifolium lagopinum Trifolium lagopinum Jordan, Mém. Acad. Roy. Sci. Lyon, Sect. Sci., ser. 2. 1: 269. 1851. FRANCE: Near Lyon,
Trifolium longisetum Trifolium longisetum Boissier & Balansa ex Boissier, Diagn. Pl. Orient. 2(6): 47. 1859.  
Trifolium sabuletorum Trifolium sabuletorum Jordan ex Boreau, Fl. Centre France, ed. 3. 2: 153. 1857. FRANCE

Specimens and Distribution

This species has been reported in the following counties by the herbaria listed. An overview of the individual specimens are provided in the table that follows. Click on the accession number to view details; click on column headers to sort; choose a county or herbaria to filter the specimen data.

Counties included on distribution map: Autauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Blount, Bullock, Butler, Calhoun, Cherokee, Chilton, Choctaw, Coffee, Colbert, Conecuh, Coosa, Covington, Crenshaw, Dale, Dallas, Elmore, Escambia, Etowah, Geneva, Hale, Henry, Houston, Jackson, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Lee, Lowndes, Macon, Mobile, Monroe, Montgomery, Morgan, Pike, Randolph, Talladega, Tuscaloosa, Washington

Counties represented by specimen data listed below:

Herbaria represented by specimen data listed below: ALNHS, AUA, JSU, TROY, UNA, USAM, UWAL

Range of years during which specimens were collected: 1937 - 1997

Barcode / Accession No. County Coll. Date Collector &
Collection No.		 Herbarium &
Herbarium Name Used		 Image
JSU137985 Colbert 14 Jul 1973 Hanlin, H.G.
203		 JSU
Trifolium arvense Linnaeus
TROY000042268 Houston 23 Apr 2015 Diamond, Alvin R.
26199		 TROY
Trifolium arvense Linnaeus
JSU137989 Lawrence 25 May 1996 Whetstone, R. David
17701		 JSU
Trifolium arvense Linnaeus
UWAL0049126 Bullock 25 May 2016 Horne, Howard E.
3216		 UWAL
Trifolium arvense Linnaeus
USAM000006696 Mobile 09 Jun 1981 LeLong, Michel G.
12055		 USAM
Trifolium arvense Linnaeus
UNA00068668 Barbour 28 Apr 2007 Keener, Brian R.
3578		 UNA
Trifolium arvense L.
UWAL0003103 Washington 16 Apr 2011 Keener, Brian R.
6367		 UWAL
Trifolium arvense L.
TROY000005651 Coffee 21 Apr 2000 Martin, Brian H.
620		 TROY
Trifolium arvense Linnaeus
AUA000013702 Colbert 21 May 2005 Spaulding, Daniel D.
12270		 AUA
Trifolium Arvense L.
UWAL0039671 Elmore 03 May 2018 Diamond, Alvin R.
28270		 UWAL
Trifolium arvense L.
UNA00061248 Elmore 24 Apr 2003 Spaulding, Daniel D.
11765		 UNA
Trifolium arvense L.
TROY000005659 Montgomery 16 May 2001 Diamond, Alvin R.
12436		 TROY
Trifolium arvense Linnaeus
JSU137993 Lee 16 Jun 1973 French, Tom W.
52		 JSU
Trifolium arvense Linnaeus
TROY000049036 Lowndes 08 May 2019 Diamond, Alvin R.
28906		 TROY
Trifolium arvense Linnaeus
UWAL0015369 Morgan 08 Jun 2014 England, J. Kevin
4967		 UWAL
Trifolium arvense Linnaeus
USAM000006695 Mobile 09 Jun 1981 LeLong, Michel G.
12055		 USAM
Trifolium arvense Linnaeus
UNA00018225 Tuscaloosa 08 Jun 1981 Davenport, Lawrence J.
2138		 UNA
Trifolium arvense L.
AUA000013714 Lee 16 May 1969 Hall, William G.
164		 AUA
Trifolium Arvense L.
TROY000005655 Dale 15 May 1993 Richters, Renate
7		 TROY
Trifolium arvense Linnaeus
TROY000039445 Monroe 12 May 2014 Diamond, Alvin R.
25092		 TROY
Trifolium arvense Linnaeus
AUA000013711 Lee 17 May 1970 Knotts, Carl R.
229		 AUA
Trifolium Arvense L.
UWAL0010275 Dallas 11 May 2012 Keener, Brian R.
7259		 UWAL
Trifolium arvense L.
UNA00065642 Colbert 21 May 2005 Spaulding, Daniel D.
12270		 UNA
Trifolium arvense L.
UWAL0016480 Monroe 12 May 2014 Diamond, Alvin R.
25092		 UWAL
Trifolium arvense Linnaeus
AUA000013713 Lee 8 Jul 1972 Ball, Donald M.
039		 AUA
Trifolium Arvense L.
TROY000036566 Bullock 29 Mar 2012 Dykes, Bailee
495		 TROY
Trifolium arvense Linnaeus
JSU137995 Talladega 26 May 1993 Whetstone, R. David
16734		 JSU
Trifolium arvense Linnaeus
UNA00018227 Hale 28 May 1937 Harper, Roland M.
3580		 UNA
Trifolium arvense L.
USAM000006697 Mobile 09 Jun 1981 LeLong, Michel G.
12055		 USAM
Trifolium arvense Linnaeus
UWAL0007083 Autauga 13 May 2009 Keener, Brian R.
5269		 UWAL
Trifolium arvernse L.
TROY000047656 Autauga 21 Mar 2017 Parker, Matthew R.
514		 TROY
Trifolium arvense Linnaeus
JSU137992 Lee 02 May 1966 Berry, Robert
s.n.		 JSU
Trifolium arvense Linnaeus
AUA000013722 Randolph 19 Jun 1973 Spencer, S.K.
026		 AUA
Trifolium Arvense L.
UNA00018228 Calhoun 23 May 1979 Haynes, Robert R.
7171		 UNA
Trifolium arvense L.
TROY000019843 Barbour 04 May 2008 Diamond, Alvin R.
19149		 TROY
Trifolium arvense Linnaeus
TROY000005661 Pike 17 Apr 2003 Diamond, Alvin R.
13850		 TROY
Trifolium arvense Linnaeus
UWAL0046522 Autauga 21 Mar 2017 Parker, Matthew R.
514		 UWAL
Trifolium arvense Linnaeus
AUA000013709 Dale 8 Apr 2005 Diamond, Alvin R.
15065		 AUA
Trifolium Arvense L.
TROY000005657 Geneva 14 Apr 2001 Kral, Robert
90786		 TROY
Trifolium arvense Linnaeus
USAM000006694 Mobile 09 Jun 1981 LeLong, Michel G.
12055		 USAM
Trifolium arvense Linnaeus
UWAL0043820 Baldwin 10 Apr 2003 Larsen, Harry S.
1180		 UWAL
Trifolium arvense L.
AUA000013704 Conecuh 24 Apr 1994 Diamond, Alvin R.
9083		 AUA
Trifolium Arvense L.
TROY000030903 Lee 01 May 1950 Richards, Helen
s.n.		 TROY
Trifolium arvense Linnaeus
UWAL0032811 Lauderdale 17 Jun 2016 England, J. Kevin
6587		 UWAL
Trifolium arvense Linnaeus
AUA000013720 Montgomery 13 May 1967 Burnett, Alta M.
230		 AUA
Trifolium Arvense L.
UWAL0007086 Jackson 09 Jun 2009 Keener, Brian R.
5439		 UWAL
Trifolium arvernse L.
UNA00059370 Randolph 15 Jun 2002 Spaulding, Daniel D.
11388		 UNA
Trifolium arvense L.
JSU137983 Cherokee 22 Jun 1985 Whetstone, R. David
15314		 JSU
Trifolium arvense Linnaeus
UWAL0036246 Mobile 12 Apr 2017 Horne, Howard E.
3776		 UWAL
Trifolium arvense Linnaeus
AUA000013708 Crenshaw 7 May 2005 Diamond, Alvin R.
15329		 AUA
Trifolium Arvense L.
TROY000005654 Dale 08 Apr 2005 Diamond, Alvin R.
15065		 TROY
Trifolium arvense Linnaeus
AUA000013715 Lee 12 May 1964 Creel, John
 AUA
Trifolium Arvense L.
AUA000013707 Crenshaw 22 Apr 1988 Diamond, Alvin R.
4526		 AUA
Trifolium Arvense L.
TROY000041151 Elmore 19 May 2012 Pullen, Robert
435		 TROY
Trifolium arvense Linnaeus
UWAL0010789 Barbour 01 May 2012 Diamond, Alvin R.
23006		 UWAL
Trifolium arvense Linnaeus
JSU137996 Macon 20 May 1973 McCullers, R.B.
205		 JSU
Trifolium arvense Linnaeus
UWAL0010633 Choctaw 06 Apr 2012 Keener, Brian R.
7093		 UWAL
Trifolium arvense L.
TROY000039910 Choctaw 06 Apr 2012 Keener, Brian R.
7093		 TROY
Trifolium arvense Linnaeus
UWAL0037232 Coosa 20 May 2016 Spaulding, Daniel D.
14632		 UWAL
Trifolium arvense L.
JSU137987 Etowah 27 May 1994 Hodge, Lesley M.
1312		 JSU
Trifolium arvense Linnaeus
TROY000019917 Colbert 21 May 2005 Spaulding, Daniel D.
12270		 TROY
Trifolium arvense Linnaeus
AUA000013716 Lee 29 Apr 1963 Elkins, Donald M.
 AUA
Trifolium Arvense L.
TROY000032243 Jackson 09 Jun 2009 Keener, Brian R.
5439		 TROY
Trifolium arvense Linnaeus
JSU137984 Colbert 26 May 1996 Whetstone, R. David
17834		 JSU
Trifolium arvense Linnaeus
UNA00054109 Blount 10 May 1998 Keener, Brian R.
759		 UNA
Trifolium arvense L.
AUA000013718 Macon 7 May 1999 Crandall, Elizabeth A.
1		 AUA
Trifolium Arvense L.
UNA00060276 Pike 17 Apr 2003 Diamond, Alvin R.
13850		 UNA
Trifolium arvense L.
JSU137988 Jackson 04 Jun 1999 Brodeur, Kristin R.
1941		 JSU
Trifolium arvense Linnaeus
JSU137991 Lee 02 May 1966 Berry, Robert
s.n.		 JSU
Trifolium arvense Linnaeus
AUA000013703 Colbert 7 Aug 1971 Strait, Dan B.
147		 AUA
Trifolium Arvense L.
UNA00048885 Barbour 05 Apr 1997 MacDonald, John R.
10082		 UNA
Trifolium arvense L.
TROY000005656 Escambia 25 Apr 2005 Diamond, Alvin R.
15211		 TROY
Trifolium arvense Linnaeus
TROY000005650 Butler 29 Apr 2007 Diamond, Alvin R.
17466		 TROY
Trifolium arvense Linnaeus
AUA000013712 Lee 6 Jul 1969 Hayes, J.L.
027		 AUA
Trifolium Arvense L.
TROY000032147 Autauga 13 May 2009 Keener, Brian R.
5269		 TROY
Trifolium arvense Linnaeus
AUA000013705 Covington 5 May 1990 Diamond, Alvin R.
6878		 AUA
Trifolium Arvense L.
TROY000005653 Crenshaw 07 May 2005 Diamond, Alvin R.
15329		 TROY
Trifolium arvense Linnaeus
AUA000013706 Covington 3 May 1979 Crawford, Lloyd C.
 AUA
Trifolium Arvense L.
JSU138004 Chilton 13 Apr 1968 O' Neal, Judy
s.n.		 JSU
Trifolium arvense Linnaeus
TROY000019842 Henry 01 May 2008 Diamond, Alvin R.
19120		 TROY
Trifolium arvense Linnaeus
AUA000013717 Lee May 1950 Richards, Helen
 AUA
Trifolium Arvense L.
JSU137994 Lee Bozarth, Gene A.
s.n.		 JSU
Trifolium arvense Linnaeus
UWAL0007085 Butler 29 Apr 2007 Diamond, Alvin R.
17466		 UWAL
Trifolium arvernse L.
TROY000019844 Covington 24 Apr 2008 Diamond, Alvin R.
19054		 TROY
Trifolium arvense Linnaeus
UWAL0007084 Barbour 28 Apr 2007 Keener, Brian R.
3578		 UWAL
Trifolium arvernse L.
TROY000019918 Elmore 24 Apr 2003 Spaulding, Daniel D.
11765		 TROY
Trifolium arvense Linnaeus
TROY000019919 Randolph 15 Jun 2002 Spaulding, Daniel D.
11388		 TROY
Trifolium arvense Linnaeus
AUA000039578 Lauderdale 17 Jun 2016 England, J. Kevin
6587		 AUA
Trifolium Arvense L.
TROY000039914 Dallas 11 May 2012 Keener, Brian R.
7259		 TROY
Trifolium arvense Linnaeus
JSU137986 Elmore 27 Apr 1979 Whetstone, R. David
9638		 JSU
Trifolium arvense Linnaeus
ALNHS00001072 Lee 01 Apr 2012 Barger, T. Wayne
SP#487		 ALNHS
Trifolium arvense L.
AUA000013719 Macon 24 Apr 1979 Crawford, Daniel S.
078		 AUA
Trifolium Arvense L.
TROY000005660 Pike 26 Apr 1993 Coleman, Dennis
4		 TROY
Trifolium arvense Linnaeus
AUA000013721 Pike 18 Apr 1988 Diamond, Alvin R.
4463		 AUA
Trifolium Arvense L.
JSU137990 Lee 16 May 1973 Botts, Daniel A.
128		 JSU
Trifolium arvense Linnaeus
UWAL0017693 Houston 23 Apr 2015 Diamond, Alvin R.
26199		 UWAL
Trifolium arvense Linnaeus
TROY000005658 Henry 14 May 1993 Carpenter, Malinda
8		 TROY
Trifolium arvense Linnaeus
AUA000013710 Escambia 25 Apr 2005 Diamond, Alvin R.
15211		 AUA
Trifolium Arvense L.
TROY000005652 Crenshaw 14 May 1991 Nichols, Grant
4		 TROY
Trifolium arvense Linnaeus
TROY000019841 Barbour 28 Apr 2007 Keener, Brian R.
3578		 TROY
Trifolium arvense Linnaeus
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