Summary
Place of publication:
Sp. pl. 2:769. 1753
Verified:
03/23/2007
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
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Common names
English
carnation clover – crimson clover – Italian clover – scarlet clover – French
farouche – trèfle incarnat – German
Inkarnatklee – Italian
trifoglio incarnato – Japanese Rōmaji
benibana-tsumekusa – Portuguese
trevo-encarnado – trevo-vermelho – Spanish
trébol encarnado – Swedish
blodklöver – Transcribed Chinese
jiang che zhou cao –
Distribution
order_code | Status | Continent | Subcontinent | Country | State | Note |
1 | Native | | | | | |
1 | Native | Africa | Macaronesia | Portugal | Madeira Islands | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Western Asia | Turkey | | |
1 | Native | Europe | Northern Europe | United Kingdom | | |
1 | Native | Europe | Southeastern Europe | Albania | | |
1 | Native | Europe | Southeastern Europe | Bulgaria | | |
1 | Native | Europe | Southeastern Europe | Greece | | incl. Crete |
1 | Native | Europe | Southeastern Europe | Italy | | incl. Sardinia, Sicily |
1 | Native | Europe | Southeastern Europe | Yugoslavia | | |
1 | Native | Europe | Southwestern Europe | France | | incl. Corsica |
1 | Native | Europe | Southwestern Europe | Portugal | | |
1 | Native | Europe | Southwestern Europe | Spain | | |
2 | Cultivated | | | | | also cult. in temperate regions |
4 | Naturalized | | | | | natzd. elsewhere in temperate regions |
Native
Africa
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MACARONESIA:
Portugal [Madeira Islands]
Asia-Temperate
Europe
-
NORTHERN EUROPE:
United Kingdom
-
SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE:
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece (incl. Crete), Italy (incl. Sardinia, Sicily), Yugoslavia
-
SOUTHWESTERN EUROPE:
Spain, France (incl. Corsica), Portugal
Cultivated
(also cult. in temperate regions)
Naturalized
(natzd. elsewhere in temperate regions)
Economic Uses
Usage | Type | Note | Reference |
Animal food | fodder | | Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2 |
Animal food | forage | | Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2 |
Bee plants | honey production | | Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening |
Environmental | revegetator | | Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening |
Environmental | soil improver | | University of California Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program. UC SAREP on-line cover crop database (on-line resource). |
Human food | vegetable | as sprouted seeds | Facciola, S. 1990. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants Kampong Publications. |
Vertebrate poisons | mammals | | Kingsbury, J. M. 1964. Poisonous plants of the United States and Canada. |
Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System.
2023. Germplasm Resources Information Network
(GRIN Taxonomy). National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
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Accessed 2 April 2023.