Trifolium angustifolium L.

Spice Detail In the field Inflorescence

Family: LEGUMINOSAE

Genus: Trifolium

Catalan common name: Fenc bord.

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

Distribution in the islands: Mallorca. Menorca. Formentera.

General distribution (Phytogeography): Mediterranean

IUCN Category: LCLeast concern

Flowering time: JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Life-forms: Terophyte.

Habitats: Cultivated fields, path and road sides, disturbed zones. Pine wood and shrubland with rosemary and thyme garigue. Therophytic calicole fields. Therophytic silicolous fields. Garriques and road sides. Therophytic communities.

Characteristics: This Trifolum is one of the more easy to identify, as the leaf folioles are very long (up to 8 cm) and narrow, with large stipules, also long and narrow. Flowers are grouped in a cylindrical inflorescence and the flowers are rose coloured.