Taxon:
Trifolium repens L.
Summary
Place of publication:
Sp. pl. 2:767. 1753
Verified:
03/26/2007
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Reference(s)
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Common names
English
Dutch clover – ladino clover – white clover – white Dutch clover – French
trèfle blanc – trèfle rampant – German
Weißklee – Italian
trifoglio bianco – trifoglio ladino – Portuguese
trevo-branco – Spanish
trébol blanco – Swedish
vitklöver – Transcribed Chinese
bai che zhou cao – Transcribed Korean
keuroba – tokkipul –
Distribution
order_code | Status | Continent | Subcontinent | Country | State | Note |
1 | Native | Africa | Northern Africa | Algeria | | |
1 | Native | Africa | Northern Africa | Egypt | | |
1 | Native | Africa | Northern Africa | Libya | | |
1 | Native | Africa | Northern Africa | Morocco | | |
1 | Native | Africa | Northern Africa | Tunisia | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Caucasus | Armenia | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Caucasus | Azerbaijan | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Caucasus | Georgia | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Caucasus | Russian Federation | Checheno-Ingushetia | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Caucasus | Russian Federation | Dagestan | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Caucasus | Russian Federation | Kabardino-Balkaria | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Caucasus | Russian Federation | Karachay-Cherkessia | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Caucasus | Russian Federation | Krasnodar | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Caucasus | Russian Federation | North Ossetia | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Caucasus | Russian Federation | Stavropol | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Middle Asia | Kazakhstan | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Middle Asia | Kyrgyzstan | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Middle Asia | Tajikistan | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Middle Asia | Turkmenistan | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Middle Asia | Uzbekistan | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Siberia | Russian Federation | Altay | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Siberia | Russian Federation | Buryatia | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Siberia | Russian Federation | Chelyabinsk | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Siberia | Russian Federation | Gorno-Altay | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Siberia | Russian Federation | Irkutsk | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Siberia | Russian Federation | Kemerovo | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Siberia | Russian Federation | Khakassia | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Siberia | Russian Federation | Khanty-Mansi | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Siberia | Russian Federation | Krasnoyarsk | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Siberia | Russian Federation | Kurgan | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Siberia | Russian Federation | Novosibirsk | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Siberia | Russian Federation | Omsk | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Siberia | Russian Federation | Sverdlovsk | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Siberia | Russian Federation | Tomsk | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Siberia | Russian Federation | Tuva | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Siberia | Russian Federation | Tyumen | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Siberia | Russian Federation | Ust Orda Buryat | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Western Asia | ****** | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Western Asia | Afghanistan | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Western Asia | Cyprus | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Western Asia | Iran | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Western Asia | Iraq | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Western Asia | Jordan | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Western Asia | Lebanon | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Western Asia | Syria | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Western Asia | Turkey | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indian Subcontinent | Pakistan | | |
1 | Native | Europe | East Europe | Belarus | | |
1 | Native | Europe | East Europe | Estonia | | |
1 | Native | Europe | East Europe | Latvia | | |
1 | Native | Europe | East Europe | Lithuania | | |
1 | Native | Europe | East Europe | Moldova | | |
1 | Native | Europe | East Europe | Russian Federation | Arkhangelsk | |
1 | Native | Europe | East Europe | Russian Federation | Astrakhan | |
1 | Native | Europe | East Europe | Russian Federation | Bashkortostan | |
1 | Native | Europe | East Europe | Russian Federation | Belgorod | |
1 | Native | Europe | East Europe | Russian Federation | Bryansk | |
1 | Native | Europe | East Europe | Russian Federation | Chuvashia | |
1 | Native | Europe | East Europe | Russian Federation | Ivanovo | |
1 | Native | Europe | East Europe | Russian Federation | Kaliningrad | |
1 | Native | Europe | East Europe | Russian Federation | Kalmykia | |
1 | Native | Europe | East Europe | Russian Federation | Kaluga | |
1 | Native | Europe | East Europe | Russian Federation | Karelia | |
1 | Native | Europe | East Europe | Russian Federation | Kirov | |
1 | Native | Europe | East Europe | Russian Federation | Komi | |
1 | Native | Europe | East Europe | Russian Federation | Kostroma | |
1 | Native | Europe | East Europe | Russian Federation | Kursk | |
1 | Native | Europe | East Europe | Russian Federation | Leningrad | |
1 | Native | Europe | East Europe | Russian Federation | Lipetsk | |
1 | Native | Europe | East Europe | Russian Federation | Mari-El | |
1 | Native | Europe | East Europe | Russian Federation | Mordvinia | |
1 | Native | Europe | East Europe | Russian Federation | Moscow | |
1 | Native | Europe | East Europe | Russian Federation | Murmansk | |
1 | Native | Europe | East Europe | Russian Federation | Nenets | |
1 | Native | Europe | East Europe | Russian Federation | Novgorod | |
1 | Native | Europe | East Europe | Russian Federation | Orel | |
1 | Native | Europe | East Europe | Russian Federation | Orenburg | |
1 | Native | Europe | East Europe | Russian Federation | Penza | |
1 | Native | Europe | East Europe | Russian Federation | Perm | |
1 | Native | Europe | East Europe | Russian Federation | Pskov | |
1 | Native | Europe | East Europe | Russian Federation | Rostov | |
1 | Native | Europe | East Europe | Russian Federation | Ryazan | |
1 | Native | Europe | East Europe | Russian Federation | Saratov | |
1 | Native | Europe | East Europe | Russian Federation | Smolensk | |
1 | Native | Europe | East Europe | Russian Federation | Tambov | |
1 | Native | Europe | East Europe | Russian Federation | Tatarstan | |
1 | Native | Europe | East Europe | Russian Federation | Tula | |
1 | Native | Europe | East Europe | Russian Federation | Udmurtia | |
1 | Native | Europe | East Europe | Russian Federation | Ulyanovsk | |
1 | Native | Europe | East Europe | Russian Federation | Vladimir | |
1 | Native | Europe | East Europe | Russian Federation | Volgograd | |
1 | Native | Europe | East Europe | Russian Federation | Vologda | |
1 | Native | Europe | East Europe | Russian Federation | Voronezh | |
1 | Native | Europe | East Europe | Russian Federation | Yaroslavl | |
1 | Native | Europe | East Europe | Ukraine | | incl. Krym |
1 | Native | Europe | Middle Europe | Austria | | |
1 | Native | Europe | Middle Europe | Belgium | | |
1 | Native | Europe | Middle Europe | Czechoslovakia | | |
1 | Native | Europe | Middle Europe | Germany | | |
1 | Native | Europe | Middle Europe | Hungary | | |
1 | Native | Europe | Middle Europe | Netherlands | | |
1 | Native | Europe | Middle Europe | Poland | | |
1 | Native | Europe | Middle Europe | Switzerland | | |
1 | Native | Europe | Northern Europe | Denmark | | |
1 | Native | Europe | Northern Europe | Faroe Islands | | |
1 | Native | Europe | Northern Europe | Finland | | |
1 | Native | Europe | Northern Europe | Iceland | | |
1 | Native | Europe | Northern Europe | Ireland | | |
1 | Native | Europe | Northern Europe | Norway | | |
1 | Native | Europe | Northern Europe | Sweden | | |
1 | Native | Europe | Northern Europe | United Kingdom | | |
1 | Native | Europe | Southeastern Europe | Albania | | |
1 | Native | Europe | Southeastern Europe | Bulgaria | | |
1 | Native | Europe | Southeastern Europe | Former Yugoslavia | | |
1 | Native | Europe | Southeastern Europe | Greece | | |
1 | Native | Europe | Southeastern Europe | Italy | | incl. Sardinia, Sicily |
1 | Native | Europe | Southeastern Europe | Romania | | |
1 | Native | Europe | Southwestern Europe | France | | incl. Corsica |
1 | Native | Europe | Southwestern Europe | Portugal | | |
1 | Native | Europe | Southwestern Europe | Spain | | incl. Baleares |
2 | Cultivated | | | | | widely cult. |
4 | Naturalized | Africa | East Tropical Africa | Kenya | | |
4 | Naturalized | Africa | East Tropical Africa | Tanzania | | |
4 | Naturalized | Africa | Northeast Tropical Africa | Ethiopia | | |
4 | Naturalized | Africa | Southern Africa | South Africa | Eastern Cape | |
4 | Naturalized | Africa | Southern Africa | South Africa | Gauteng | |
4 | Naturalized | Africa | Southern Africa | South Africa | KwaZulu-Natal | |
4 | Naturalized | Africa | Southern Africa | South Africa | Mpumalanga | |
4 | Naturalized | Africa | Southern Africa | South Africa | North West | |
4 | Naturalized | Africa | Southern Africa | South Africa | Western Cape | |
4 | Naturalized | Asia-Temperate | China | China | | |
4 | Naturalized | Asia-Tropical | Indian Subcontinent | Bhutan | | |
4 | Naturalized | Asia-Tropical | Indian Subcontinent | India | | |
4 | Naturalized | Asia-Tropical | Indian Subcontinent | Sri Lanka | | |
4 | Naturalized | Australasia | Australia | Australia | | |
4 | Naturalized | Australasia | New Zealand | New Zealand | | |
4 | Naturalized | Northern America | | Canada | | |
4 | Naturalized | Northern America | | Mexico | | |
4 | Naturalized | Northern America | | United States | | |
4 | Naturalized | Pacific | North-Central Pacific | United States | Hawaii | |
4 | Naturalized | Southern America | | South America | | |
4 | Naturalized | Southern America | Caribbean | West Indies | | |
4 | Naturalized | Southern America | Mesoamerica | Central America | | |
Native
Africa
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NORTHERN AFRICA:
Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia
Asia-Temperate
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CAUCASUS:
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Russian Federation [Checheno-Ingushetia, Dagestan, Kabardino-Balkaria, Karachay-Cherkessia, North Ossetia, Krasnodar, Stavropol]
-
MIDDLE ASIA:
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
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SIBERIA:
Russian Federation [Buryatia, Gorno-Altay, Khakassia, Tuva, Altay, Krasnoyarsk, Chelyabinsk, Irkutsk, Ust Orda Buryat, Kemerovo, Kurgan, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Sverdlovsk, Tomsk, Tyumen, Khanty-Mansi]
-
WESTERN ASIA:
Afghanistan, Cyprus, Iran, Iraq, ******, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey
Asia-Tropical
-
INDIAN SUBCONTINENT:
Pakistan
Europe
-
EAST EUROPE:
Belarus, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Moldova, Russian Federation [Arkhangelsk, Astrakhan, Bashkortostan, Belgorod, Bryansk, Chuvashia, Ivanovo, Kaliningrad, Kalmykia, Kaluga, Karelia, Kirov, Komi, Kostroma, Kursk, Leningrad, Lipetsk, Mari-El, Mordvinia, Moscow, Murmansk, Nenets, Novgorod, Orel, Orenburg, Penza, Perm, Pskov, Rostov, Ryazan, Saratov, Smolensk, Tambov, Tatarstan, Tula, Udmurtia, Ulyanovsk, Vladimir, Volgograd, Vologda, Voronezh, Yaroslavl], Ukraine (incl. Krym)
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MIDDLE EUROPE:
Austria, Belgium, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Hungary, Netherlands, Poland
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NORTHERN EUROPE:
Denmark, Finland, Faroe Islands, United Kingdom, Ireland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden
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SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE:
Former Yugoslavia, Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy (incl. Sardinia, Sicily), Romania
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SOUTHWESTERN EUROPE:
Spain (incl. Baleares), France (incl. Corsica), Portugal
Cultivated
(widely cult.)
Naturalized
Africa
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EAST TROPICAL AFRICA:
Kenya, Tanzania
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NORTHEAST TROPICAL AFRICA:
Ethiopia
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SOUTHERN AFRICA:
South Africa [Eastern Cape, Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga, North West, Western Cape]
Asia-Temperate
Asia-Tropical
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INDIAN SUBCONTINENT:
Bhutan, India, Sri Lanka
Australasia
-
AUSTRALIA:
Australia
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NEW ZEALAND:
New Zealand
Northern America
-
REGION:
Canada, Mexico, United States
Pacific
-
NORTH-CENTRAL PACIFIC:
United States [Hawaii]
Southern America
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REGION:
South America
-
CARIBBEAN:
West Indies
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MESOAMERICA:
Central America
Economic Uses
Animal food
Environmental
soil improver (fide Cover Crop Database) – Harmful organism host
crop diseases (fide Virus Diseases 35. 1987) – Vertebrate poisons
mammals (fide Kingsbury; Kellerman et al.; Cooper & Johnson ed2) – Weed
potential seed contaminant (fide Geigy Weed Tables. 1968; Invasive Pl Spec) –