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Trifolium occidentale
Western clover is a low, creeping perennial legume that lives almost only on coastal sand dunes and sea cliffs in western Europe, closely resembling white clover. It is a wild native species and is not commonly grown as a garden plant.
Trifolium occidentale, the western clover, is a clover plant belonging to the genus Trifolium in the legume family, Fabaceae.
This species lives almost exclusively in sand dunes and sea cliffs on the Atlantic coast of Europe, especially Cornwall and the Channel Islands.
It is found only within 100 metres (330 ft) of the coast, in western Europe. It inhabits sandy dunes, including dune and dry short coastal grasslands and sea cliffs, especially around rock outcrops. Its range extends from the east coast of Ireland and the southern British Isles such as Cornwall, the Channel Islands and Isle of Scilly in particular, to the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula, although much less common. In France, it is found on the shores of the Armorican Massif and Normandy and Brittany.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Trifolium occidentale 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.
