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Trifolium subterraneum

Godley Head, Port Hills, Canterbury.<br>Photographer: Melissa Hutchison, Date taken: 21/09/2014, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0'>CC BY-NC</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

West Melton drylands, Canterbury.<br>Photographer: Melissa Hutchison, Date taken: 15/10/2016, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0'>CC BY-NC</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

West Melton drylands.<br>Photographer: Melissa Hutchison, Date taken: 26/10/2022, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0'>CC BY-NC</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

Banks Peninsula.<br>Photographer: Melissa Hutchison, Date taken: 18/12/2016, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0'>CC BY-NC</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

Christchurch.<br>Photographer: Melissa Hutchison, Date taken: 29/09/2019, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0'>CC BY-NC</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

Trifolium subterraneum.<br>Photographer: John Smith-Dodsworth, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0'>CC BY-NC</a>.

Flowers of Trifolium subterraneum.<br>Photographer: John Smith-Dodsworth, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0'>CC BY-NC</a>.

Te Awakairangi Hutt River south of Stokes Valley.<br>Photographer: Jeremy R. Rolfe, Date taken: 31/10/2023, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0'>CC BY</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

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Common names

subclover, subterranean clover

Biostatus

Exotic

Structural class

Herbs - Dicotyledons other than Composites

Flower colours

White

Similar taxa

Subclover can be distinguished from all other naturalised clovers in NZ by the heads comprising few large fertile flowers + central sterile flowers the calyx of which expands at fruiting.

Conservation status

Not applicable

Detailed taxonomy

Family

Fabaceae

Authority

Trifolium subterraneum L.

Ecology

Year naturalised

1906

Origin

S. and W. Europe, Asia Minor, S. Russia, N.W. Africa

Other information

NVS code

The National Vegetation Survey (NVS) Databank is a physical archive and electronic databank containing records of over 94,000 vegetation survey plots - including data from over 19,000 permanent plots. NVS maintains a standard set of species code abbreviations that correspond to standard scientific plant names from the Ngä Tipu o Aotearoa - New Zealand Plants database.

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