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Shiro TSUYUZAKI
Plant community ecology / Environmental conservation

Mount Usu / Sarobetsu post-mined peatland
From left: Crater basin in 1986 and 2006. Cottongrass / Daylily

(Update on July 15 2005. Revised on October 27 2009)

Clover
Trifolium repens L. (White Colver)
Trifolium pratense L. (Red Colver)
Fabaceae (Leguminosae)

[ T. repens | T. pratense , f. albiflorum ]

Trifolium repens: Shirotsumekusa (シロツメクサ, 白詰草)
Trifolium pratense: Akatsumekusa (アカツメクサ, 赤詰草)

Trifolium pratense f. albiflorum Alef.: Shirobana-akatsumekusa (シロバナアカツメクサ, 白花赤詰草)

Life form: perennials
Distribution: exotic to Japan


Trifolium repens on Mount Usu

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Trifolium repens on July 11 2005, near the 4th crater on Mount Usu.


Trifolium pratense in Hokkaido

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[Left] Trifolium pratense on July 11 2005 near the 4th crater on Mount Usu. [Right] on bandoned Teine Senjaku skislope on October 5 2009.

f. albiflorum

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Trifolium pratense f. albiflorum Alef.. On Tenguyama skislope in the city of Otaru, Hokkaido, Japan, on August 23, 1998.


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