Trifolium campestre Schreber

English: Feld-Klee, Hop clover, Hop trefoil

German: Acker-Klee, Feld Klee

Mandarin: 草原车轴草 (cao yuan che zhou cao)

Portuguese: Trevo-amarelo

Kingdom: Plantae (2715)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2630)

    Class: Magnoliopsida (2217)

      Order: Fabales (244)

        Family: Fabaceae (244)(family description)

          Genus: Trifolium (8)

            Epithet: campestre Schreber (3)

Synonyms: Chrysaspis campestris Desv., Trifolium agrarium sensu auct., Trifolium erythranthum (Griseb.)Hal., Trifolium karatavicum Pavlov, Trifolium lagrangei Boiss., Trifolium procumbens L., Trifolium pseudoprocumbens C.Gmelin, Trifolium pumilum Hossain, Trifolium thionanthum Hausskn.

agrarium => of the land, growing in fields

campestre => growing in fields

campestris => growing in fields

erythranthum => red anthers

karatavicum => from Karatau, mountain range in southern Kazakhstan

procumbens => prostrate or lying down

pumilum => short, very small, low, small, dwarf

Climate: temperate

Habitat: mesophytic

Habit: herb

Flower colour: yellow

Check for Trifolium campestre at

World Flora Online, GBIF or IPNI

• [39] Image of Trifolium campestris - Prof. Dr. Otto Wilhelm Thomé: Flora von Deutschland Österreich und der Schweiz
• [413] International Legume Database & Information Service
• [1656] Trifolium campestre - Flora of China @ efloras.org

• [31] Canzobre, H.L., Samartín, L.A. (1998): Guía da flora do litoral galego. Edicións Xerais de Galicia, Vigo, Spain.
• [17] Rothmaler, W. (1995): Exkursionsflora von Deutschland, Band 3, Gefäßpflanzen: Atlasband. Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart, Germany.