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Trifolium cherleri
Also called Cherler's Clover, Hairy Trefoil
Southern clover (Trifolium cherleri) is a small annual clover in the pea and bean family, native to the Canary Islands, the Mediterranean and east to Iran, and grown as a forage plant in Australia. It is a cool-season annual that does best in open, sunny ground with well-drained soil.
Trifolium cherleri, the cupped clover, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae. It is native to the Canary Islands, the Mediterranean, and the Middle East as far east as Iran, and it has been introduced to Australia as a forage. Three cultivars have been developed in Australia; 'Beenong', 'Yamina' and 'Lisare'.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Trifolium cherleri 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.
