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Madrono, Vol. 60, No. 3, p. 260, 2013 NOTEWORTHY COLLECTION CALIFORNIA turf containing several plants, grew them out to Trifolium—suffocatum L. (FABACEmAE) (suffo- mZaothuarrityy,anadndHeildleentrif(i1e9d84t)h.emItasis Tw.orstufhfoncoattiunmgftrhoamt cated clover). Monterey Co., along 180 ofincom- 13 years later the population is still extant on the golf pletely vegetated use trail on old sand dunes offormer course grounds. Fort Ord, in chaparral, with Matricaria discoidea DC, Significance. This is the first report of T. suffocatum pLuespiilldaiu(mBenstthr.i)ctTu.mI.(SC.huWaantgso&n)HeRcaktatradn,, HTyrpiopchhyasearriisa f(o1r984N)o,rtthhisAmneartiivcea.ofAcEcuorrodpiengantod ZtohehaMreydiatnedrrHaenlelaenr gL.l,abCraarLd.i,onTerimfaolriaummosanigsussitmiufmol(iWumeiLn.m,.S)pAer.gNulealsaornve&nsiJs. gT.roswusffionc“agtrumaziendtphleacBersitainsdh rIsolaedssimdaesy.”beAnfoaucncdouinntthoef LFB1.or0gSofMm0iaua6cs0b6grad7.li3,la8inEcPda,lrua4Csn0ot5saRs5go.8ot4h&8,cNo,raGoneenlrdeomvp..Bu.,s82hALmoi.r,r,da3eSaicMclaaeernuyyesop2gLh0a.y1l,l0ll,iUecSaaTtMyLLe..:r,, cOnoaonntulurtirhsnaeeelfiAwoztearldmsaeisrnaotFfhoreretsthgoeorOltrfB.drc.ioTtuDihrsueshre,i&gnaagrnIdrdteihsniethelrisFa,tlleoiRkr1eua8ld0y0(on'2lsa0f,t12ut)rUh.alelriIigtzcoehli,dfs 37318 (CDA), identified by Randall Morgan and brought plants from all over the world. Even after the JcCoouunnrfesie2r,0m1eU2d,TbMayn:dM1iU0cSThaM0e6:l011V80i1Sn3cEe0,n6t04;1055M07o13nE1t,8eN4r,0e5eyl0e0Pv0.i1n3eN4s,mGw,oi2tl8hf Nmmiaulvcityharhyacuqpmuuairnrpeodsterastf.hfeicBpofrtrohopemratrlyeo,acaslithaarwveaeassbaneenevdnerasbuurbsojaeeddct.ftoT.or 40-50 plants, all past bloom and withered, in incom- suffocatum has not been noted in thelocalhorticultural pletelyvegetated, unplanted “lawn” on old sand dunes, trade. with Aira caryophyllea, Plantago coronopus, Lasthenia We wish to thank Fred Hrusa and Michael Vincent minor (DC.) Ornduff, Medicagopolymorpha L., Trifo- for their assistance. lium tomentosum L., Cotula australis (Sreng.) Hook, f., Silenegallica, Piperiayadonii Rand. Morgan & Acker- —David Styer, P.O. Box 444, Moss Landing, CA mehloaernvd.,ea3c6Feuemss,,tu5cHaJyuplobycrh2oa0me1or2ii,dseDs.gl&aLb.r,Ja.,SBtrayonemdru3sH7.4d6ri7aadn(idCcraDutsAa,).LB.., 9C5r0u3z9,;CaAnd95R0a6n0.daDlavlidM.ostrygear@ns,bc1g5l7obMala.rnkeett.St., Santa Collection notes. Plant densely cespitose, apparently Literature Cited without stems, ca. 5-10 cm diameter; inflorescence without peduncle, of many minute green calyces Online Atlasofthe British & Irish Flora. 2012. clustered in center ofplant; and flowers cleistogamous. Trifolium suffocatum (suffocated clover). Website: Withrespectto thekeyinVincentandIsley(2012), this http://www.brc.ac.uk/plantatlas/index.php?q=plant/ could be placed at the beginning of Group 2, and it trifolium-suffocatum [accessed01 September2012]. would separate T. suffocatum from all others in the Vincent, M. A. and D. Isely. 2012. Trifolium. group. It is the only CA clover with neither stem nor Pp. 789-798 in B. G. Baldwin, D. H. Goldman, peduncle. D. J. Keil, R. Patterson, T. J. Rosatti, and D. H. Apopulationofapparentlyseveralhundredplantsof Wilken (eds.), The Jepson manual: vascular plants this species was first noted by Morgan at the Monterey of California, 2nd ed. University of California Pines Golf Course on 17 April 1999, with Lasthenia Press, Berkeley, CA. minor growingasaweedonirrigated,mowedlawnjust Zohary, M. and D. Heller. 1984. The Genus inside, the golf course. The clover was in vegetative Trifolium. IsraelAcademyofSciencesand Human- condition at the time, but he removed a small clump of ities, Jerusalem, Israel.