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Cowbag Clover
( Trifolium depauperatum )
Trifolium depauperatum
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About Cowbag Clover (Trifolium depauperatum)
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Trifolium depauperatum
is a species of clover known by the common names cowbag clover, poverty clover, and balloon sack clover. The plant is native to western North America from British Columbia to California, as well as towestern South America in Peru and Chile. It is a common plant of many types of habitat, including coastal prairie and mixed evergreen forest,.
Trifolium depauperatum
is a small annual herb growing upright or decumbent in form. The leaves are made up of oval leaflets up to 2 centimeters long which are smooth, toothed, lobed, or blunt-tipped. The inflorescence is a head of flowers up to 1. 5 centimeters long. The flower has a pinkish purple white-tipped corolla up to a centimeter long. It becomes inflated as the fruit developed. Subspecies.
Trifolium depauperatum
has several varieties, which can include:
Trifolium depauperatum
var. amplectens - Balloon sack clover, Pale bladder clover.
Trifolium depauperatum
var. depauperatum - Cowbag clover.
Trifolium depauperatum
var. hydrophilum
Trifolium depauperatum
var. truncatum - Dwarf sack clover.
Plant Description
Plant Type
Annual herb
Dormancy
Evergreen
Flower Color
Pink, White, Purple
Wildlife Supported
Butterflies & moths hosted ( 64
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Strymon melinus
Strymon melinus
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Southern Dogface
Zerene cesonia
Zerene cesonia
*
Shasta Blue
Icaricia shasta
Icaricia shasta
*
Greenish Blue
Icaricia saepiolus
Icaricia saepiolus
*
Persius Duskywing
Erynnis persius
Erynnis persius
*
Clouded Sulphur
Colias philodice
Colias philodice
Landscaping Information
Natural Setting
Climate
Annual Precipitation: 7.0" - 117.4", Summer Precipitation: 0.14" - 3.43", Coldest Month: 31.9" - 57.3", Hottest Month: 57.2" - 81.0", Humidity: 0.44" - 29.36", Elevation: -293" - 6588"
Alternative Names
Common Names
: Balloon Sack Clover, Poverty Clover
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Cowbag Clover
Trifolium depauperatum
Sources include:
Wikipedia
. All text shown in the "About" section of these pages is available under the
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License
. Plant observation data provided by the participants of the
California Consortia of Herbaria
, Sunset information provided by
Jepson Flora Project
. Propogation from seed information provided by the
Santa Barbara Botanical Garden
from "Seed Propagation of Native California Plants" by Dara E. Emery. Sources of plant photos include
CalPhotos
,
Wikimedia Commons
, and independent plant photographers who have agreed to share their images with Calscape. Other general sources of information include
Calflora
,
CNPS Manual of Vegetation Online
,
Jepson Flora Project
,
Las Pilitas
,
Theodore Payne
,
Tree of Life
,
The Xerces Society
, and information provided by CNPS volunteer editors, with special thanks to Don Rideout. Climate data used in creation of plant range maps is from
PRISM Climate Group, Oregon State University
, using 30 year (1981-2010) annual "normals" at an 800 meter spatial resolution.
Links:
Jepson eFlora Taxon Page
CalPhotos
Wikipedia
Calflora
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