{"id":284,"date":"2021-09-28T21:04:12","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T21:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuarthedley.co.uk\/blog\/?p=284"},"modified":"2021-10-04T09:10:35","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T09:10:35","slug":"two-trefoils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuarthedley.co.uk\/blog\/herefordshire-recording\/two-trefoils\/","title":{"rendered":"Two trefoils"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stuarthedley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Trifolium-dubium-T.-micranthum-6a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"767\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/stuarthedley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Trifolium-dubium-T.-micranthum-6a-767x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stuarthedley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Trifolium-dubium-T.-micranthum-6a-767x1024.jpg 767w, https:\/\/stuarthedley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Trifolium-dubium-T.-micranthum-6a-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/stuarthedley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Trifolium-dubium-T.-micranthum-6a-768x1025.jpg 768w, https:\/\/stuarthedley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Trifolium-dubium-T.-micranthum-6a-1151x1536.jpg 1151w, https:\/\/stuarthedley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Trifolium-dubium-T.-micranthum-6a-1534x2048.jpg 1534w, https:\/\/stuarthedley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Trifolium-dubium-T.-micranthum-6a.jpg 1661w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 100vw, 767px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Lesser trefoil <em>Trifolium dubium <\/em>(top right) obligingly growing amongst slender trefoil <em>Trifolium micranthum <\/em>at Ewyas Harold Common, June 2021.  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Starved plants of lesser trefoil <em>Trifolium dubium <\/em>may pose problems of identification for slender trefoil, <em>Trifolium micranthum.  <\/em>The picture helps by showing the two alongside one another.  Note the diagnostic longer central leaflet stalk of <em>dubium <\/em>(top arrow) and its absence in <em>micranthum<\/em> (bottom arrow).  This is more reliable  than flower and inflorescence size which although clearly different in the picture overlap in range.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starved plants of lesser trefoil Trifolium dubium may pose problems of identification for slender trefoil, Trifolium micranthum. The picture helps by showing the two alongside one another. Note the diagnostic longer central leaflet stalk of dubium (top arrow) and its &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stuarthedley.co.uk\/blog\/herefordshire-recording\/two-trefoils\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":285,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kt_blocks_editor_width":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuarthedley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuarthedley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuarthedley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuarthedley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuarthedley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stuarthedley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":288,"href":"https:\/\/stuarthedley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions\/288"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuarthedley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuarthedley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuarthedley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuarthedley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}