title: Trifolium depauperatum
text: # 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.
  