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Trifolium eriocephalum is a species of clover known by the common name woollyhead clover or hairy head clover. The plant is native to the Northwestern United States, and to California, Nevada, and Utah. It is a common plant of several types of habitat, including Coast redwood forest, coastal prairie, mixed evergreen forest, and yellow pine forest. Trifolium eriocephalum is a hairy perennial herb producing an upright, unbranched stem. The leaves are made up of oval leaflets up to 4 centimeters long. The inflorescence is a head of flowers up to 3 centimeters long with flowers spreading and soon drooping. The flower has a densely hairy, tubular calyx of sepals with long, narrow linear lobes that may bend outward. The white or yellowish corolla may be up to 1. 4 centimeters long. Subspecies are: Trifolium eriocephalum ssp. cusickii - Cusick's clover, Great Basin region. Trifolium eriocephalum ssp. eriocephalum

Plant type

Perennial herb

Dormancy

Evergreen

Sun

Full Sun

Site type

Spring-moist places

Plant communities

Coastal Prairie, Mixed Evergreen Forest, Forest, Yellow Pine Forest

Caterpillars
Butterflies

Butterflies and moths supported

1 confirmed and 45 likely

Confirmed Likely

Chionodes braunella

Fingered Dagger Moth

Acronicta dactylina

Ipsilon Dart

Agrotis ipsilon

Vancouver Dart Moth

Agrotis vancouverensis