Common Name: Crimson Clover, Italian Clover

Scientific Name: Trifolium incarnatum

Family Name: Fabaceae

Mills River, North Carolina

May 29, 2002

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An imported forage plant that often escapes, this has large, dense heads of crimson flowers, ovoid at first, ultimately cylindrical, and up to three inches long. Its leaflets are broadly obovate. [Smith, Richard M., Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains. The University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville, 1998]

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