Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Tomcat

Tomcat Clover (Trifolium willdenovii)
photographed in the coastal prairie on Bodega Head, 24 April 2013


If you're wondering, this species was named after Carl Ludwig Willdenow (1765-1812), a German botanist known as one of the founders of the field of phytogeography (the study of the geographic distribution of plants).

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