Trifolium depauperatum
# Trifolium depauperatum

Trifolium depauperatum is a species of clover known by the common names cowbag clover, poverty clover, and balloon sack clover.

## Distribution

The plant is native to western North America from British Columbia to California, as well as to western South America in Peru and Chile. It is a common plant of many types of habitat, including coastal prairie and mixed evergreen forest.

## Description

Trifolium depauperatum is a small annual herb growing upright or decumbent in form. The leaves are made up of oval leaflets up to 2 centimeters long which are smooth, toothed, lobed, or blunt-tipped. The inflorescence is a head of flowers up to 1.5 centimeters long. The flower has a pinkish purple white-tipped corolla up to a centimeter long. It becomes inflated as the fruit developed.

### Subspecies

Trifolium depauperatum has several varieties, which can include:

* Trifolium depauperatum var. amplectens — Balloon sack clover, Pale bladder clover.
* Trifolium depauperatum var. depauperatum — Cowbag clover.
* Trifolium depauperatum var. hydrophilum
* Trifolium depauperatum var. truncatum — Dwarf sack clover.
