Trifolium hybridum, Trifolium elegans, SE: Alsikeklöver,
DE: Schweden-Klee, NL: Bastaardklaver, UK: Alsike Clover

Scientific name:		Trifolium hybridum L.
Synonym name:		Trifolium elegans Savi (ssp. elegans)
Swedish name:		Alsikeklöver
German name:		Schweden-Klee
Nederlandse naam:		Bastaardklaver
English name:		Alsike Clover
Family:		Fabaceae / Leguminosae, Ärtväxter

Date Picture Taken: July 19, 2008

Life form:		Annual
Stems:		Height 20–50 cm, limp–almost erect, sparsely branched, glabrous–upper part hairy, grooved
Leaves:		Alternate, petiolate, trifoliolate, stipulate, dentate or serrate
Flowers:		Corolla papilionaceous, whitish at first - soon becoming pinkish - turning rose upon drying
Flowering Period:		June - August
Fruits:		Indehiscent pod (not splitting open to release the seeds when ripe)
Habitat:		Farmland, settlements

Date Picture Taken: July 19, 2008 Derivation of the botanical name: Trifolium, tri, "three", and folium, "leaf" and refers to the 3-lobed leaves. hybridum, "hybrid", mongrel, hybridized, cross-bred. The standard author abbreviation L. is used to indicate Carl Linnaeus (1707 – 1778), a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, the father of modern taxonomy. The standard author abbreviation Savi is used to indicate Gaetano Savi (1769 – 1844), an Italian naturalist.