Scientific name: | Trifolium pauciflorum d'Urv. | |
Common name: | Few-flower clover | |
Hebrew name: | תלתן דל-פרחים | |
Arabic name: | النفل قليل الأزهار | |
Plant Family: | Papilionaceae, פרפרניים |
|
Life form: | Therophyte, annual | |
Leaves: | Alternate, compound, trifoliate | |
Flowers: | Violet | |
Flowering Period: | March, April, May | |
Habitat: | Batha, Phrygana | |
Distribution: | Mediterranean Woodlands and Shrublands, Montane vegetation of Mt. Hermon | |
Chorotype: | Mediterranean | |
Summer shedding: | Ephemeral |
Derivation of the botanical name: Trifolium, Latin tri, tres, three; folium, leaf; three-leaved. pauciflorum, with few flowers. The Hebrew name: תלתן, taltan, clover, trefoil, from tlat (Aramaic) three; the clover is recalled in the Mishnah Kilayim 2:5, "[a field} of clover among which grew up..."
|