HOME

TheInfoList



OR:

''Trifolium virginicum'', the Kate's Mountain clover, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae. It is native to West Virginia and Virginia in the United States, growing only on the Piedmont mafic barren, with
Kate's Mountain Kate's Mountain, south of White Sulphur Springs in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, was named for Catherine "Kate" Carpenter, who in September 1756 took refuge with her child on the mountain's peak during an Indian attack in which her husband Ni ...
as the type locality. ''Trifolium virginicum'' is the symbol of the West Virginia Native Plant Society, which claims it can also be found in Maryland and Pennsylvania.


References

virginicum Endemic flora of the United States Flora of Virginia Flora of West Virginia Plants described in 1893 Flora without expected TNC conservation status {{Trifolieae-stub