hybridum), is an introduced European species scattered nearly statewide (least common in the Ozarks). Alsike clover, or Alsatian or Swedish clover ( T.But we have a number of pink- or red-blooming clovers that could be confused with red clover: Several are yellow or white and therefore not likely to be confused with red clover. Some are rare and some are common some are native and some were introduced. Similar species: Missouri has about 14 species in genus Trifolium. Petals are reddish purple or (rarely) white. The flower heads are globe-shaped or egg-shaped, ⅜–1¼ inches in diameter, stalkless (a pair of leaves at the base), with 40–150 florets per head. Leaflets lack stalks and are mostly oval, the margins scalloped or toothed (often only near the tip) a pale V-shape is usually in the middle of each leaflet. There is a pair of conjoined leaflike stipules where the leaf stalks join the stem these stipules are pointed at the tip and strongly veined. The leaves are compound with 3 leaflets leaf stems are longest at the base of the plant. The stems are upright, much-branched, and can be hairless or hairy. It is a perennial with a short, stout rootstock. You probably know what red clover looks like, but you might not be aware of some fine points of its form.
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A Eurasian native, it was introduced to North America by the middle 1600s. Red clover, or purple clover, is the familiar large, pinkish-purple clover that grows in lawns, pastures, and roadsides statewide.
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