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Latin (Botanical) name: Trifolium alexandrinum L.

Family name: Leguminosae, Papilionoideae.

Common name: Egyptian clover, Barseem.

Origin: Egypt.

Plant description:

LEGUMINOSAE A. Juss. Flowers irregular, papilionaceous, with standard, keel and wings (Papilionoideae). Leaves 3 foliolate. Leaflets not stipuled. Withered corolla persistent, hiding the small legume, flowers in dense heads or spikes.

Herbs TRIFOLIUM L. Leaves 3 foliolate. Flowers in dense heads (in reality a much contracted spike, raceme or umbel). Legume small, indehiscent, covered by the persistent withered corolla or calyx. Fruit-calyx not inflated. Flowers white. Stem erect. Stem glabrous or subglabrous. Leaflets narrow, elliptic. TRIFOLIUM ALEXANDRINUM L.: Tall erect herb with narrow elliptical leaflets. Herds dense, not umbel-like, flowers white. Annual. Cultivated. Also completely naturalized in the places enumerated.

Source: STUDENTS’ FLORA OF EGYPT second edition, by VIVI TÄCKHOLM, D. Sc. (Stockholm) Professor of Systematic Botany, Faculty of Science, Cairo University. Published by Cairo University. Printed by COOPERATIVE PRINTING COMPANY Beirut, 1974.

Propagation: Fruits (seeds), annual plant.

Similar Species: Medicago sativa

Species List

Genus.

Botanical Family.

Product Photo. 

Alfalfa

Anise seed

Atrillal, Bishop's Weed

Basil

Beet

Caltrops, Tribulus

Celery

Chamomile, Matricaria

Clover, Egyptian

Coriander

Croton

Epazote

Fennel seed

Harmala, African rue

Hibiscus (Karkade)

Milk thistle

Nut grass

Plantain

Ploughmans spikenard

Saltbush

Thistle, Sonchus

Zilla

Zygophyllum

Chenopodiaceae.

Compositae.

Cruciferae.

Cyperaceae.

Euphorbiaceae.

Gramineae.

Labiatae.

Plantaginaceae.

Sterculiaceae.

Umbelliferae.

Zygophyllaceae.