Trifolium breweri

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Trifolium breweri
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Faboideae
Tribe: Trifolieae
Genus: Trifolium
Species: T. breweri
Binomial name
Trifolium breweri
S.Watson

Trifolium breweri is a species of clover known by the common name forest clover. It is native to Oregon and northern California, where it grows in forests, roadsides, and other habitat.

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Trifolium breweri is a perennial herb growing upright or decumbent in form, with hairy herbage. The leaves are made up of smooth-edged or toothed oval leaflets. The inflorescence is an umbel-shaped head of flowers 1 or 2 centimeters wide, the flowers often spreading out or drooping. The flower has a pinkish or yellowish corolla under a centimeter long in a calyx of sepals with long, narrow lobes.

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