Trifolium tomentosum, Trifolium curvisepalum,
Woolly Trefoil, Hebrew: תלתן לביד, Arabic: كريشة الراعي

Scientific name:		Trifolium tomentosum L.
Synonym name:		Trifolium curvisepalum Taeckh.
Common name:		Woolly Trefoil
Hebrew name:		תלתן לביד
Arabic name:		كريشة الراعي
Plant Family:		Papilionaceae, פרפרניים

Location: Netanya, the Dora rain pool

Life form:		Annual
Leaves:		Alternate; compound, trifoliate; dentate or serrate
Flowers:		Violet; hermaphrodite
Flowering Period:		February, March, April
Habitat:		Batha, Phrygana
Distribution:		Mediterranean Woodlands and Shrublands, Semi-steppe shrublands, Shrub-steppes, Montane vegetation of Mt. Hermon
Chorotype:		Euro-Siberian - Med - Irano-Turanian
Summer shedding:		Ephemeral

Location: Netanya, the Dora rain pool Derivation of the botanical name: Trifolium, Latin tri, tres, three; folium, leaf; three-leaved. tomentosum, densely woolly; with matted hairs. curvisepalum, curvi, curved. 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..." 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 Taeckh. is used to indicate Vivi Täckholm (1898 - 1978), a Swedish botanist, co-author of Flora of Egypt (1949-69), wife of Gunnar Täckholm, first professor of botany at Cairo Univeristy (1925-9), devoted most of her life to studying the flora of Egypt,inspired botanists in Egypt for some fifty years.