Trifolium pratense photograph from the Finnish Biodiversity Information Facility
Photograph by Jouko Rikkinen, CC BY-NC 4.0, via FinBIF. Licence ↗

FinBIF accepted taxon · MX.39052

Trifolium pratense L.

Family
Fabaceae
Genus
Trifolium
Common names
FI: puna-apila · SV: rödklöver
2024 dataset
Recorded as Trifolium pratense
Open verified FinBIF record ↗

Coastal-meadow position

Our 2024 field observations

SEAINLANDOP 0%Open PioneerOP: 0 / 30 plots · 0% occurrenceLS 0%Lower ShoreLS: 0 / 30 plots · 0% occurrenceUS 17%Upper ShoreUS: 5 / 30 plots · 17% occurrenceTG 20%Tall GrassTG: 6 / 30 plots · 20% occurrencecommunity bands form a gradient · boundaries are not rigid

Occurrence uses the 30 sampled plots in each community. Community boundaries are not rigid; these are study observations, not a complete Estonian distribution. Study data and methods →

INDEPENDENT BOTANICAL EVIDENCE

General ecology

Trifolium pratense is a perennial herb of meadows, dry grasslands, verges, roadsides and forest margins, and it is also cultivated as forage. It is native from western Europe and North Africa to central and southern Asia and established widely elsewhere.

Sources: FinBIF / Laji.fi

Saardu0 / 20 plots
Keemu6 / 30 plots
Koera5 / 30 plots
Kudani0 / 40 plots

FINBIF TAXONOMY

Current verified classification

  1. kingdomPlantae Haeckel
  2. phylumTracheophyta Sinnott ex Cavalier-Smith
  3. classMagnoliopsida Brongn.
  4. orderFabales Bromhead
  5. familyFabaceae Lindl.
  6. genusTrifolium L.
  7. speciesTrifolium pratense L.

OUR MEASURED TRAITS

Pool-wise CCI and leaf area

Trait values are pooled measurements collected during the 2024 coastal-meadow field campaign and are study observations, not fixed species constants. Only summaries with at least five measurements are shown.

No validated pool-wise trait summary

This species did not meet the ≥5-measurement rule in the supplied CCI or leaf-area summary tables.

Licensed FinBIF photographs

Additional photographs

These views complement the primary photograph above without repeating it. Use them alongside a regional identification key; photographs alone are not sufficient for a field identification.

Trifolium pratense photograph from the Finnish Biodiversity Information Facility
Photograph by Johanna Kolehmainen, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, via FinBIF. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · source ↗
Trifolium pratense photograph from the Finnish Biodiversity Information Facility
Photograph by Johanna Kolehmainen, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, via FinBIF. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · source ↗

FIELD DATA → EARTH OBSERVATION

How this taxon enters the analysis

These steps show what this record contributes to the 2024 study. They do not turn the taxon name into a remotely sensed measurement.

  1. 1 · FIELD EVIDENCE11 of 120 plots

    6 occupied plots have a positive numeric cover value available for occupied-plot cover summaries.

  2. 2 · TRAIT ELIGIBILITYNo eligible CCI or leaf-area summary

    Neither trait met the documented minimum of five measurements for this taxon, so it contributes no species median to the CCI or leaf-area community-weighted means.

  3. 3 · MODEL LINKPlot response, not species detection

    Plot-level ecological responses are paired with UAV predictors. A fitted model can estimate variation in those responses across the landscape; this record does not train a classifier for Trifolium pratense.

Interpretation boundary: UAV or satellite imagery does not uniquely identify Trifolium pratense in this study. Follow the complete field-to-EO workflow →