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Plant Profile

Showy Indian Clover (Trifolium amoenum)

Global Rank: G1 - Critically Imperiled
Legal Status: Federally Endangered
Family: Fabaceae
State: CA
Nature Serve ID: 135645
Lifeform: Forb/herb
Date Inducted in National Collection:

Description:

Where is Showy Indian Clover (Trifolium amoenum) located in the wild?

Habitat:

grasslands - (this type of habitat is still available), low, wet swales, grasslands, and grassy hillsides

Distribution:

States & Provinces:

Showy Indian Clover can be found in California

Which CPC Partners conserve Showy Indian Clover (Trifolium amoenum)?

California Botanic Garden

Not Sponsored

Conservation Actions

Assigned 06/09/17

CPC's Plant Sponsorship Program provides long term stewardship of rare plants in our National Collection. We are so grateful for all our donors who have made the Plant Sponsorship Program so successful. We are in the process of acknowledging all our wonderful plant sponsorship donors on our website. This is a work in progress and will be updated regularly.

Conservation Actions

09/01/2020

Based on an September 2020 extract of the California Plant Rescue Database, University of California Botanical Garden holds 1 accessions of Trifolium amoenum in orthodox seed collection. We are uncertain as to how many total seeds are in this collection.

09/01/2020

Based on an September 2020 extract of the California Plant Rescue Database, California Botanic Garden holds 13 accessions of Trifolium amoenum in orthodox seed collection. There are as many as 4223 seeds of this species in their collection - although some may have been used for curation testing or sent to back up.

08/05/2020

Based on an August 2020 extract of the California Plant Rescue Database, University of California Botanical Garden has collected 1 seed accessions of Trifolium amoenum from 1 plant occurrences listed in the California Natural Diversity Database. These collections together emcompass an unknown number of maternal plants

08/05/2020

Based on an August 2020 extract of the California Plant Rescue Database, California Botanic Garden has collected 1 seed accessions of Trifolium amoenum from 1 plant occurrences listed in the California Natural Diversity Database. These collections together emcompass an unknown number of maternal plants

01/01/2010

urbanization agriculture, competition with invasive plants, land conversion to agriculture, livestock grazing, and random events

01/01/2010

extinct. The in California last seen in 1969 being cultivated by a private individual one plant in Sonoma County on private land owned by Occidental developer Joe Shepard The only known extant population is that found in 1996. This population consists of about 200 plants growing on two residential lots in Marin Co.