Trifolium purpureum one of the 300 species of the clover genus Trifolium (Fabaceae).It is native to fields, roadsides, and disturbed area in southern Europe from Portugal to Romania, the Crimea to Israel and to North Africa from Egypt to Morocco.The plant has also been recorded in northeast Massachusetts, around wool waste plants, where it evidently was introduced from Europe (Fletcher 1913). In NSW, Australia, T. purpureum has been developed as a pasture species because it produces green feed longer in the spring/summer than do other annuals and is tolerant of a variety of soil type and water logging, and it is grown for silage and hay in Europe as well as Australia.An annual, self-regenerating herbaceous plant, it grows upright, usually between 10 and 50 cm, sometimes up to a meter tall. It has long thin leaflets and a triangular, purple flower up to 8 cm (3 inches) long (Hacker et al. 2006; Wikipedia 2014).
Trifolium purpureum contains glycosides, phenols, Komorinim, flavonoids, and Silitzilitim mineral acids.It is commonly used in Arab folk medicine to treat diarrhea, menstrual irregularities, skin damage, cough, rubella, and for stress, nervousness and insomnia (Wikipedia 2014).
