Citation: L., Sp. Pl. 769 (1753) var. arvense.

Synonymy: T. arvense L. var. glabrum Vis., Fl. Dalm. 3:292 (1852).

Common name: Hares foot clover.

Description:
Annual or biennial, 4-40 cm high, erect or diffusely branched, whitish- or reddish-pubescent, rarely glabrescent; leaves digitately 3-foliolate, leaflets linear-oblong to narrowly elliptic, 5-20 mm long, more or less obtuse, often emarginate, dentate, mucronate, upper leaves sessile, lower on distinct slender petioles, white-sericeous; lower stipules lanceolate-subulate, the upper subulate from an ovate base.

Inflorescence ovoid to cylindrical, to 30 mm long, elongating in fruit, on white pubescent peduncles longer or shorter than the head, with numerous densely sericeous flowers; calyx tubular-campanulate, 10-nerved, 5-6 mm long, often covered with dense hairs, rarely glabrescent, teeth 1-5 times as long as the tube, subequal, setaceous, acute, with long hairs, reddish, in fruit the tube globose and teeth divergent; corolla white and pink, 3-6 mm long, persistent, much shorter than the calyx, glabrous.

Pod scarious; seed subglobose, c. 0.7 mm, yellow.

Image source: fig. 353B in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 425.

Distribution:    W.Aust.; Qld; N.S.W.; Vic.; Tas.   Native to Europe, now widespread in southern Asia, Africa and New Zealand. Conservation status: naturalised Flowering time: Sept. — Dec.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: No text

Taxonomic notes: Very variable in habit, indumentum, pigmentation, size and shape of the leaflets and length of the calyx. Several taxa have been described which are not clearly separable at species or infraspecific level.

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