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Scientific Name:Trifolium campestre
Population of Hop Clover
Population of Hop Clover
Photo: A J Brown

Status:
Native to Europe, the Middle East and northern Africa.

Plant Description:

Annual herb with prostrate or ascending habit. Stems 5-50 cm long, simple or branching, sparely hairy to almost hairless. Leaves are trifoliate with rhombic to oblong-elliptic leaflets, 8-16 mm long and 4-8 mm wide, virtually hairless, finely toothed. Stipules (leaf-like structures at the base of the leaf and flower-stalks) leafy and fused to the flower stalk for half their length.

Flowers yellow, many, closely overlapping in a near globular head, 8-15 mm long and 7-10 mm wide.

Habitat:
Widespread and common weed of pastures, cultivation and waste areas across Victoria. Typically a plant of fresh-water habitats but may occur on the fringes of saline swamps and flats during wetter periods.
RegionSalinity ClassWaterlogging Class
Central and Northern, Wimmera, Western, GippslandS0, *S1W0, W1, W2
*may be found on or fringing saline sites during the wetter parts of the year

Comments:
One of a number of small annual clovers found in pastures, waste ground and bordering swamps, lakes and water courses. A simple key to the more common of these species is provided (Key to common annual clovers). Other clovers, but with a perennial habit, include Strawberry Clover (Trifolium fragiferum), White Clover (Trifolium repens) and Red Clover (Trifolium pratense).

Hop Clover photos

Hop Clover leaf
Hop Clover leaf
Photo: A J Brown

Hop Clover flower-head
Hop Clover flower-head
Photo: A J Brown

Mature flower-head of Hop Clover
Mature flower-head of Hop Clover
Photo: A J Brown

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