Trifolium arvense L.
hare's-foot clover (rabbitfoot clover)
Fabaceae (Pea family)
Introduction to Vascular Plants
hare's-foot clover (rabbitfoot clover)
Fabaceae (Pea family)
Introduction to Vascular Plants
Species Information
General:
Annual herb from a taproot; stems 1 to several, erect, 10-40 cm tall, freely branched, hairy.
Leaves:
Alternate, palmately compound; leaflets 3, linear-oblanceolate, 8-25 mm long; stipules narrowly egg-shaped, joined to the leaf-stalks, narrow-margined but extending into free bristle-tips 5-10 mm long.
Flowers:
Inflorescence a dense, egg-shaped to cylindric, axillary or terminal head, 5-25 mm long, of many pea-like flowers, the heads soft-hairy and lacking an involucre; corollas white to pale pink, 4-6 mm long; calyces about 1-1/2 times as long as the corollas, strongly stiff-hairy to feathery, the needle-like teeth twice as long as the tube.
Fruits:
Pods, membranous, about 1.5 mm long; seeds 1.
Illustration
If more than one illustration is available for a species (e.g., separate illustrations were provided for two subspecies) then links to the separate images will be provided below. Note that individual subspecies or varietal illustrations are not always available.
Illustration Source: The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia
Ecology
Ecological Framework for Trifolium arvense
The table below shows the species-specific information calculated from
original data (BEC database) provided by the BC Ministry of Forests and Range.
(Updated August, 2013)
The table below shows the species-specific information calculated from
original data (BEC database) provided by the BC Ministry of Forests and Range.
(Updated August, 2013)
| Site Information |
Value / Class |
||
|
Avg |
Min |
Max |
|
| Elevation
(metres) |
924 | 500 | 1205 |
| Slope
Gradient (%) |
19 | 5 | 65 |
|
Aspect (degrees) |
128 | 80 | 320 |
| Soil
Moisture Regime (SMR) [0 - very xeric; 4 - mesic; 8 - hydric] |
3 | 2 | 4 |
| Modal
Nutrient Regime
Class |
C | ||
| #
of field plots species was recorded in: |
5 | ||
| Modal
BEC Zone Class |
IDF | ||
|
All BEC Zones (# of stations/zone) species was recorded in |
BWBS(1), ICH(1), IDF(3) | ||
|
Source:
Klinkenberg 2013
|
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Habitat and Range
Mesic to dry roadsides, fields and waste places in the lowland, steppe and montane zones; infrequent in extreme S BC; introduced from Eurasia.Status Information
Synonyms
Synonyms and Alternate Names:
Trifolium arvense var. arvense
Trifolium arvense var. perpusillum DC.