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§1 Plant
Trifolium nigrescens Viv.
vernacular small white clover — species · Fabaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Annual
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Fabaceae Lindl.
- Genus
- Trifolium
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 23 counties across 7 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- None
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- Medium
- Fire
- None
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- Low
- CaCO₃
- None
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- 4 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 119 min.
- Precipitation
- 30–70 in/yr
- pH range
- 5.6–6.9
- Root depth
- 12 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Single Crown
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Mature height
- 1 ft
- Foliage texture
- Fine
- Foliage colour
- Dark Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Porous
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- White
- Fruit colour
- Black
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- Low
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Mid Spring
- Seed abundance
- High
- Seed begins
- Spring
- Seed ends
- Summer
- Spread rate
- Rapid
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 1,000,000
- Propagation
- seed
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Contracting Only
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- High
- Graze palatability
- High
- Palatable, human
- No
- Protein potential
- High
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 23 counties across 7 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Florida view state ↗ 7 I ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 8 I ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 1 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/TRNI3 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5358774 ↗Record version
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