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Red Clover

Flowering Plants

A short-lived herbaceous perennial native to Europe, western Asia and northwest Africa, naturalized across temperate North and South America and Australasia. It grows twenty to eighty centimeters tall, with three-lobed leaves marked by a pale crescent and dense clusters of dark pink flowers, cultivated varieties growing substantially larger than wild plants. It thrives in meadows and grasslands and is widely grown as a fodder crop and green manure for its nitrogen-fixing ability, while its flowers and leaves are also eaten and used in traditional and cosmetic preparations, and it is an important resource for pollinators.

Facts

Classification

Diet

Photosynthetic Autotroph 1

System (Realm)

Terrestrial 2

Relationship to People

Invasive or Introduced Species 1

Living or Extinct

Yes 3

Comparison

NatureServe Rank

GNR Unranked 4

CITES Appendix

Not Listed 5

Scientific Name

Trifolium pratense 3

Conservation Status

Least Concern 6

Connections

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Source Trifolium pratense (Wikidata)

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Source Plants For A Future: Trifolium pratense

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Sources

1. Trifolium pratense (Wikipedia)

Lead
It is native to the Old World, but planted and naturalised in many other regions.
Lead, sentence naming the group it belongs to
Trifolium pratense (from Latin prātum, meaning meadow), red clover, is a herbaceous species of flowering plant in the bean family, Fabaceae.

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2. Plants For A Future: Trifolium pratense

Plants For A FutureHabitats

Quote, Habitats

Meadows, pastures and other grassy places ... especially on calcareous soils. Usually found on circumneutral soils

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3. Trifolium pratense (Wikidata)

Wikidata

Wikidata Q156635 (P225 taxon name)
Statements section, conservation status (P141)
IUCN Red List conservation status (Wikidata property P141): least concern.
Child Taxon Of: Trifolium, Wikidata P171 (parent taxon) claim, rank=normal, target=Q101538 (Trifolium)

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4. NatureServe Explorer: Trifolium pratense

NatureServe ExplorerGlobal rank (roundedGRank)

Quote, Global rank (roundedGRank)

"roundedGRank": "GNR"

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5. UNEP-WCMC Species+ database (CITES Secretariat): Species+: Fabales

UNEP-WCMC Species+ database (CITES Secretariat)Species+ taxon_concepts, id 12426

Quote, Species+ taxon_concepts, id 12426

"cites_listing":"I/II/NC","eu_listing":"A/B/D/NC","higher_taxa":{"kingdom":"Plantae","phylum":null,"class":null,"order":"Fabales","family":null},"synonyms":[{"id":39606,"full_name":"Guilandina","author_year":"L.","rank":"GENUS"}],"common_names":[],"cites_listings":[]

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6. Red Clover (Wikipedia)

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Plant (Wikipedia)

Lead, whole group is photosynthetic

Quote, Lead, whole group is photosynthetic

They are predominantly photosynthetic or came from photosynthetic ancestors, meaning that they obtain their energy from sunlight by using the green pigment chlorophyll in their chloroplasts to produce sugars from carbon dioxide and water.

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