Clover bai

The clover bai ( Trifolium badium Schreb.), also called brown clover , is one of the many representatives of the kind Trifolium (the clover), pertaining to the family of the Fabacée S (or Leguminous plants, or Papilionacées). It is a plant of small size pushing exclusively in mountain starting from 1400 meters. The standards of its yellow flowers have the characteristic to transfer with brown when they start to fade.

Description

Ecology and habitat

rather common Plant long-lived in the mountains of France and the south of the Germany, except for the the Vosges, pushing of 1400 to 2800 Mr. on especially calcareous ground. The clover bai appreciates the meadows, the lawns and fairly wet rubbles, one often meets it near river. Flowering in July - August.

General and vegetative morphology

Low herbaceous plant (10 to 25 cm) forming tufts. Thick stock, which several sterile rejections leave. Set up or ascending, almost glabrous stem (very small hairs applied), of brownish color. Sheet S very few, the lower alternate ones, higher opposite, the lengthily petiolate ones and with stipulate pointed. The leaflets, rather small, elliptic and are finely cogged.

Floral morphology

Fleur S hermaphrodites in small globulous and very tight heads, the inflorescence being lengthily pédonculée. The flowers are yellow of gold, with a standard striated which bends very quickly downwards and becomes brown, just like the other petals. Pollination by the insects.

Fruit and seeds

The Fruit is small a Gousse. Dissemination épizoochore.

References

Flora of Hautes-Alpes

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