Trifolium cherleri L.

Spice Flower In the field

Family: LEGUMINOSAE

Genus: Trifolium

Catalan common name: Trèvol.

Spanish common name: Rabo de gato. Trébol.

Province distribution: Alacant. Balearic Islands. Barcelona. Girona. Tarragona. València.

Distribution in the islands: Mallorca. Menorca.

General distribution (Phytogeography): Mediterranean

IUCN Category: LCLeast concern

Flowering time: JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Life-forms: Terophyte.

Habitats: Cultivated fields, path and road sides, disturbed zones. Therophytic calicole fields. Therophytic silicolous fields. Therophytic communities.

Characteristics: This is a small annual Trifolium that is generally found prostrate along the ground, and is characterised by a rounded inflorescence that appears to lack a peduncle, as the bracts (in fact are the stipules of the upper leaves) that involves the flower is a kind of envelope and with these bracts are also round shaped. Flowers in spring.