About Trifolium eriocephalum Nutt.
Trifolium eriocephalum Nutt. is a hairy perennial herb that grows an upright, unbranched stem. Its leaves are composed of oval leaflets that can reach up to 4 centimeters in length. The plant's inflorescence is a head of flowers up to 3 centimeters long; the flowers spread out and soon droop after opening. Each flower has a densely hairy, tubular calyx made of sepals, with long, narrow linear lobes that may bend outward. The corolla, which can be white or yellowish, grows up to 1.4 centimeters long.
This plant is native to the northwestern United States, as well as the states of California, Nevada, and Utah. It is a common species in a variety of habitat types, including Coast redwood forest, coastal prairie, mixed evergreen forest, and yellow pine forest.
