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Trifolium aureum
Also called Hop clover, Large hop clover, Large hop trefoil, Large Trefoil, Yellow Clover, Golden Hop Clover, Golden Trefoil
Golden clover is a small, erect annual or biennial clover from Eurasia that has become widely naturalized in North America. It grows well on poor, undisturbed ground and is easy to establish from seed.
Trifolium aureum, known by the various common names large hop trefoil, large trefoil, large hop clover, golden clover or hop clover, is a species of flowering plant native to much of Eurasia.
Trifolium aureum is native throughout Europe (in Spain only in the northeast), western and northern Asia, and the Middle East (in Ciscaucasia and western Siberia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, northern Iran, Lebanon and Turkey). It is also native to the Canary Islands.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Trifolium aureum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
