Trifolium occidentale Coombe
(Western Clover)

Taxonomic hierarchy:
SpeciesTrifolium occidentale (Western Clover)
GenusTrifolium (clovers)
SubfamilyFABOIDEAE (vetches, peas and beans)
FamilyFABACEAE (vetches, peas, beans, accacias, wattles and sennas)
OrderFABALES (vetches, peas, beans and milkworts)
SubclassEU-DICOTS (dicotyledonous flowering plants)
ClassMAGNOLIOPSIDA (flowering plants)
PhylumTRACHEOPHYTA (vascular plants)
KingdomPLANTAE (plants)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)
Records of Trifolium occidentale (Western Clover) :
1: Trifolium occidentale (Western Clover)
15 Jun 2007 OSGR: SW61 50° 0’ N, 5° 20’ W Vice County: West Cornwall (VC 1) England
on north-facing slope above cliff
Image 1: Flower head - close-upImage 2: Flower heads - close-upImage 3: In situImage 4: Flower - face view - close-up - highly enlargedImage 5: Flower head - close-up - enlargedImage 6: Flowers - close-up - highly enlargedImage 7: Flower - side view - close-up - highly enlargedImage 8: Flower - side view - close-up - highly enlarged (2)Image 9: Flowers - side and underside views - close-up - highly enlargedImage 10: Flowers - side and underside views - close-up - highly enlarged (2)Image 11: Flowers - side and underside views - close-up - highly enlarged (3)Image 12: Leaves - close-up - enlarged

Identification Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
Anon. Trifolium Yeo, P.F. Acaena, taxa with spherical heads, Plant Crib 2012

Trifolium occidentale (Western Clover) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Trifolium occidentale (Western Clover)
BioInfoBioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 1 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for Trifolium occidentale (Western Clover)
Creative Commons License
This website is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Licence.

Unless otherwise expressly stated, all original material on the BioImages website by Malcolm Storey is licensed under the above Creative Commons Licence.

Photographs from other photographers are used with permission but not included under the above CC licence.

BioImages - Virtual Field-Guide (UK)