Single Record
Participant Info
- Species
- Trifolium hybridum
- Family
- Fabaceae
- CommonName
- Alsike clover
- Presence
- YES
- Status
- exotic
- EarliestDate
- 1935
- LatestDate
- 2021
- Ecosystem
- basin, shrubland, foothill, montane, ruderal, urban
- Geobotanical
- SSanjuans, NCristos, UBasin
- Counties
- Alamosa, Conejos, Hinsdale, Mineral, Rio Grande, Saguache, Archuleta, San Juan
- Passes
- WildlifePreserves
- Other Localities
- Alamosa (town), Del Norte
- Comments
- Trifolium hybridum, an exotic from Europe, was found in the Upper Basin region by Ramaley as early as 1936, a collection from “Alamosa” noted as “bottom land” and “common.” There are also later collections from the Adams State University campus. Alsike clover (named after the town in Sweden where Linnaeus first found it) occupies disturbed ground such as roadsides and hiking trails, but it also has nativized along streams and in meadows, sometimes in large, dense colonies. It has spread to every state in the USA except for Texas. So far it has been recorded from the Rio Grande drainage as far as Socorro Co, New Mexico. The specific epthetic, "hybridum," was assigned by Linnaeus because he thought the species was a hybrid between red and white clover—an assumption now disproven. Note that T. hybridum is toxic to livestock.
- Annotation