Single Record
Participant Info
- Species
- Trifolium repens
- Family
- Fabaceae
- CommonName
- field clover, Dutch white clover
- Presence
- YES
- Status
- exotic
- EarliestDate
- 1932
- LatestDate
- 2021
- Ecosystem
- shrubland, foothill, montane, subalpine, ruderal, urban
- Geobotanical
- SSawatch, Garitas, SSanjuans, NCristos, UBasin, LBasin
- Counties
- Alamosa, Conejos, Costilla, Hinsdale, Mineral, Rio Grande, Saguache, Archuleta
- Passes
- Wolf Creek
- WildlifePreserves
- Baca
- Other Localities
- Alamosa (town), Del Norte
- Comments
- In the Watershed, white clover, an exotic from Europe and Asia, has spread far afield, to planted meadow edges, alley ways, roadsides, montane hillsides, and subalpine streamsides. Trifolium repens requires a mesic environment and often is riparian (the two basin locations were by rivers, the Rio Grande and the Conejos). Though it is not recorded from the Culebras, it is surely present there. In the USA it is even more wide spread than Trifolium pratense, found in all states. It follows the Rio Grande drainage through New Mexico at least to Presidio Co, Texas (just west of the Big Bend country). Santangelo, et al. (2022) found that through parallel or convergent evolution, similar urban environment around the world has made T. repens in forests and farms more similar in comparison with T. repens in cities—support for the anthropocene or for the way humans are now shaping evolution.
- Annotation