Trifolium glomeratum

Clustered clover

Family: Fabaceae · Type: annual · Not Native

Clustered clover is a naturalized annual found in the California Floristic Province in disturbed areas at elevations below 300 meters. Flowering from March to May, this plant produces pink flowers in dense, compact heads 7 to 10 millimeters wide. Growing with decumbent to ascending stems that are nearly hairless, it reaches a low-spreading habit. Its leaves have three leaflets, each 5 to 12 millimeters long and obovate in shape, with stipules that have short bristle-like tips. The flower calyx is 3 to 5 millimeters long with ten ribs and triangular lobes that recurve when the fruit develops.

Habitat: Uncommon. Disturbed areas

Bloom period: Mar-May

Elevation: < 300 m

Bioregions: CA-FP

California counties: Calaveras, Butte, Mendocino, Yuba, El Dorado, Amador, Napa, Tehama, San Luis Obispo, Tulare, Santa Cruz, Nevada, Placer, Marin, Solano, Contra Costa, Humboldt, Shasta, Glenn, Madera, Alameda, San Mateo, Sonoma, Yolo, Sacramento, Colusa, Siskiyou, Lake, Imperial, Monterey, San Diego

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.