Flora:Cow's Clover
From Oregon Hikers Field Guide
| Trifolium wormskioldii (formerly Trifolium involucratum) |
| Pea Family |
Alternate Names: Coast Clover, Cow Clover, Cows Clover, Salt Marsh Clover, Sierra Clover, Springbank Clover
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Links
- Burke Museum
- CalFlora
- CalPhotos
- E-Flora BC
- Forestry Images
- Turner Photographics
- US Department of Agriculture Link
- Washington Flora Checklist
- Wildflowers.org
Description
Cow's Clover is most common near the ocean, just above the splash zone.
Tips on identifying Clover
Clovers are common flowers throughut our area. Flowers are small and pea like and they grow in large flower heads, usually at the end of the stems. Most species have leaves divided into three leaflets.
| yellow flowers; non-hairy flower heads; average width leaves middle leaflet same length petiole | Golden Clover | Trifolium aureum |
| yellow flowers; non-hairy flower heads; average width leaves; middle leaflet has longer petiole | Field Clover | Trifolium campestre |
| yellow flowers; small flower heads with 5-20 flowers | Suckling Clover | Trifolium dubium |
| long white flowers hang down in flower head | Woolly Head Clover | Trifolium eriocephalum |
| long white flowers stick up in groups of 3-5;ground hugging plant | Subterranean Clover | Trifolium subterraneum |
| white flowers fading to brown;dark green leaves with lighter stripe | White Clover | Trifolium repens |
| white or light pink flowers in a large calyx that resembles a ball | Strawberry Clover | Trifolium fragiferum |
| tiny variety; white flowers with pink bases; reddish stems | Few Flowered Clover | Trifolium oliganthum |
| white flowers in cuplike calyx; flowers fade to brown | Cup Clover | Trifolium cyathiferum |
| pink flowers in cuplike calyx; small leaves; pink stems | Thimble Clover | Trifolium microdon |
| bright pink flowers; green leaves | Red Clover | Trifolium pratense |
| bright pink flowers; 5-8 narrow leaf segments | Thompson's Clover | Trifolium thompsonii |
| bright pink flowers; sparse, open flower heads; 3 narrow leaf segments | Streambank Clover | Trifolium tridentatum |
| dark pink flowers; dense flower heads; blue green leaves; grows in coastal dunes and stream banks | Cow's Clover | Trifolium wormskioldii |
| bright pink flowers; yellow green leaves | Alslike Clover | Trifolium hybridum |
| bright pink flowers; narrow, yellow green leaves | Long Stem Clover | Trifolium longipes |
| pink flowers with white tips; serrated leaves with needle like points | Whitetip Clover | Trifolium variegatum |
| pink flowers with white tips; flower head of 2-15 flowers; grows only in extreme northwestern Washington and BC | Cowbag Clover | Trifolium depauperatum |
| pink flowers; hairy flower heads; pink stems; narrow leaves; grows west of the Cascades | Rabbit Foot Clover | Trifolium arvense |
| pink flowers; 5-9 leaflets with lighter stripe; grows east of the Cascades | Large Head Clover | Trifolium macrocephalum |
| pink flowers; toothed leaves | Small Head Clover | Trifolium microcephalum |
| light pink flowers hang down from flowerhead; toothed leaves; grows in southern Oregon | Shasta Clover | Trifolium productum |
| light pink flowers hang down from flowerhead; narrow, non-toothed leaves; grows in southern Oregon | Canyon Clover | Trifolium howelii |
| small pink flowers hand down moplike; yellow green leaves; rare in the Columbia Gorge, common in southern Oregon | Foothill Clover | Trifolium ciliolatum |
| dark pink to purple flowers; narrow leaves with crease; grows in the Blue Mountains, Wallowas | Douglas' Clover | Trifolium douglasii |
Contributors
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