Trifolium resupinatum L.

Spice Fruit Fruit 2 In the field

Family: LEGUMINOSAE

Genus: Trifolium

Province distribution: Balearic Islands. Barcelona. Girona.

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. Herbaceous communities.

Characteristics: This clover is characterized by its the rose coloured glomules it forms rose coloured glomerules of flowers upon a peduncle. When these flowers fructify, the calyxes, which are very velvety, swell and the flower ensemble forms a whitish shaggy ball from which protrudes the filiform apices of the sepals. It can be distinguished from Trifolium tomentosum, which also forms fructifying globular calyxes, although Trifolium tomentosum has its inflorescences almost on top of the stem with pedicle absent, while Trifolium resupinatum is clearly pedicilate. Flowers at the end of spring, and lives close to wet areas and tolerates slightly saline soils. Flowers in spring.