Low Hopclover, Large Hopclover

(Trifolium campestre Schreb.)

Fabaceae (Legume Family)

▲▼ flowering plants

▲▼ flowering plants

▲ small, mature plant

▲▼ flowers

▲ dried flowers and seed pods

▲▼ mature plant, showing persisting dried flowers

▲▼ flower, stem details

▲▼ comparisons between stems and plants of small  hopclover (left) and large hopclover (right)

Large Hop Clover, Low Hop Clover: (not in Weeds of the Great Plains; mentioned on pp. 370-371, Weeds of the Northeast)

·         annual or biennial weed very similar to black medic, but dried flowers remain in flower cluster on hop clover, where they will fall off on black medic

·         black medic seed pods are black; hop clover seed pods are brown

·         similar to black medic in growth habit

·         common turfgrass weed